Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you pointed out, with me today are Fraser Macaulay, the assistant commissioner, correctional operations and programs, and Ms. Lynn Garrow, the chief executive officer for CORCAN, which is an arm of the Correctional Service of Canada. Good morning, Mr. C

Public Safety committee  Yes, not only have I heard of it, but when I worked the front line a number of years ago I actually made a seizure with the drugs in diapers, as well as drugs in body cavities of children. When these kinds of situations occur, they're desperate acts by desperate people for whatev

Public Safety committee  Yes, as I said, the problem with trying to break out the numbers specifically to drugs, with the implementation of the integrated correctional program model, which has early components of the program, it's hard to give you that precise percentage. I can give you very quickly a br

Public Safety committee  Thanks for that question. As the bill stands, there is no requirement for us to do a urinalysis test immediately prior to release. All it requires us to do is that if there is a drug test that occurs before the release, either through random sampling in the institution or becaus

Public Safety committee  I would add that the combination of the risk assessment approach that the Parole Board uses and the risk-based supervision approach that our staff applies in the community is what is providing those public safety results for Canadians.

Public Safety committee  Yes, and just to clarify, that's not my total program budget. That's just if we're talking about the opportunities to address substance abuse issues. Currently I'm spending about $8.9 million specifically on substance abuse programming and with our new integrated correctional pro

Public Safety committee  I'll accept that comment.

Public Safety committee  It's worth mentioning that several programs, particularly the work around the cognitive behavioural skills development, substance abuse programming and the anger management violence prevention programs have been in our service for well over 15-plus years. In relation to the subst

Public Safety committee  There are several ways in which that occurs. To begin, I'll talk about individuals who are coming forward for conditional release. During that process there's a significant exchange of information between the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada. As wel

Public Safety committee  It varies because of the new approach we're taking with the integrated correctional program model. Before, we used to be able to just count everybody who was in the substance abuse program, but with the introduction of the integrated correctional program model in two regions, whe

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question and the opportunity to clarify. It is actually part of the story. If you go back and look at the amount of money that we were spending just on substance abuse programming back in 2009, we were spending about $11.7 million. Now, with the approach of the

Public Safety committee  Just to clarify again, the 95% actually refers to the number of offenders that complete at least one nationally recognized correctional program prior to warrant expiry date. So 95% of offenders, before their entire sentence is up—both the institutional and community part—have com

Public Safety committee  Yes, we have an early evaluation just in terms of its general implementation. Over the next two years we'll have a more detailed evaluation as to its overall effectiveness and efficacy as it relates to various correctional planning modules. Over the next two years those research

Public Safety committee  We can definitely share that, yes.

Public Safety committee  We offer a variety of evidence-based programs. A lot of our programs have actually formed the basis for many other jurisdictions around the world for their correctional programming models they put in place. The work we've done around substance abuse programming has been a model f