Public Safety committee  There are two reasons. First, it's a lack of resources. Second, there is sometimes a logic at play from the employer. At any given moment, I have to take on my role as president. When I receive calls and people tell me…

Public Safety committee  The president of the union. I'm the president of the national union. For example, if resources are given to a place to deal with the problem of drugs being thrown over the fences, someone may interpret that as requiring a minimum operational position and the position may be cut.

Public Safety committee  No. Let's say that we assign one more person to monitor the perimeter. Great; the money has been allocated. But at some point, someone interprets it and says that it's possible to use the person in that position for other things. That's what needs to be checked. But I'm not goin

Public Safety committee  No. Mr. Head just said that 80% of inmates have a drug problem.

Public Safety committee  I think that the new tools have made it more difficult for people who want to bring drugs into the institutions. I sincerely believe that the drug-detecting dogs, the Ionscan detection devices and the urine tests are tools that make it more difficult to bring drugs in. But, by d

Public Safety committee  Maybe you're going to give me a chance to talk about a slogan I hear a lot, “tough on crime”. I hear that from the field. People are saying the new government wants to be tough on crime, right? We accept the challenge to be tough on crime. I'm a correctional officer. Justice, it

Public Safety committee  They have a list. Do you know what tool they have? Okay, I have the name of Michelle on my list. Boom, I'm calling Michelle. Michelle is transferring my call to somebody else. With the technology we have now with the cellphone.... We're talking about contraband. They like to have

Public Safety committee  It's going back to one thing. It's going back to the fact that a penitentiary is not closed to the public. They have the right to call. They have the right to call people outside.

Public Safety committee  Those tools have to apply with the management of population. That's what I was saying: the management of the population is so important. There are so many problems there. In some institutions you've got nine kinds of population. There's the population where this inmate cannot t

Public Safety committee  “Engaged” means it's my first sentence inside. One of the program we always talk about on first sentences is whether there is a place in the country, in each region, where you can send a first offender. So say it's my first time. I stole a car. I have a file. I'm coming in. I d

Public Safety committee  The answer is yes and no. The problem with the substance abuse programs is that if the inmate transfers to a different institution, the program does not follow him. Not every location has vocational training for inmates. We also have the situation of double-bunking in cells. J

Public Safety committee  One thing I would like to say is that the new equipment we have received, dogs and detectors, are good tools. We need those tools. We're not going to say that is not good equipment. Are we better with this equipment? Yes. At the same time, you can have all the equipment you wan

Public Safety committee  There are usually two accounts—unless things have changed. I will tell you what I think the situation is. I am actually almost certain. There is what we call a current account and a savings account. If I am not mistaken, once or twice a year, inmates have a right to transfer mone

Public Safety committee  Let me make a distinction. The IONSCAN does not necessarily go off because the person has drugs on them. It can go off because they were in contact with drugs or they were around drugs. It doesn't mean that you have to have drugs on you. We must be careful. So if a visitor is st

Public Safety committee  I am going to answer from my perspective as president of the union. We often get calls from members saying that they don't always trust the system. Visitors go through the IONSCAN that can detect drugs, but sometimes the consequences are not always clear to us. We assume that, if