Public Safety committee  There is programming in federal institutions. There's a considerable problem with it in general, but as it relates to support for people who have substance abuse, it's a serious problem. The programming used to be subject-driven. There were packages of different areas of programm

Public Safety committee  I would like to say that the need for an effective way to screen staff and maintenance workers is as urgently needed as stopping the use of the ion scanner on visitors. Please don't think you could just extend the existing system using the ion scanner to all of the staff and th

Public Safety committee  It doesn't matter.

Public Safety committee  I think it's actually very hard on them, because a lot of the guards smoke. They go a short distance away, have a cigarette, and come back. You're constantly smelling somebody else smoking. For a lot of people.... I'm a person who struggled with nicotine addiction for years, and

Public Safety committee  Oh, yes.

Public Safety committee  I guess I feel the same way as I do about its being legalized outside. I think that criminalizing it is not helpful. I don't know whether it would help to have people—

Public Safety committee  I don't know.

Public Safety committee  I just want you to know that when the ion scanner was originally introduced, for a period of time staff were subjected to it, but because of the excessive false positives, which would keep staff from being able to go in and work and all kinds of things, it was the union that peti

Public Safety committee  It's not only a fault with the individuals in terms of using the actual result. It's a fault in operating the machine. I've been in a visit room where you queue up and one person after another goes in. People who don't know one another and who have never met before but are in a

Public Safety committee  I want to make it very clear that we're very concerned about drugs in prison, especially so at the present time when fentanyl is getting in. We not only want the ion scanner not to be used anymore, but we urgently want the CSC to introduce methods of stopping drugs getting into p

Public Safety committee  Not only further searches, but your privilege of visiting will be suspended for three months or six months, and then the review board will meet again, think about it some more, and give another decision. So yes, the sanctions are....

Public Safety committee  What it says about the state of things is that they accept that this device keeps families away from prison, and it completely contradicts their policy around the importance of maintaining community and family ties for the effective rehabilitation of prisoners.

Public Safety committee  It not only deters you from going, but I want to explain to you that it is actually quite a terrifying experience. The first time I hit positive was at Millhaven, and I hit positive for heroin. I found myself in a state of shock and terror, because I'm in an environment where p

Public Safety committee  Ecstasy.

Public Safety committee  I'd like to comment that I think CSC continues to use the ion scanner even though it is unreliable because they consider it an effective deterrent. I think that's something you should understand.