Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think, historically, what has been happening is all across the country, people have accepted that large facilities to house offenders -- whether they are youth offenders or adult offenders -- is not the way to keep going. And, that we have to make efforts to make sure that youth and adult offenders are held as close to home as possible, and to have programs available for them that are relevant and will help them to rehabilitate and be prepared for the day when they return to their communities and families and try to become a positive, productive part of society.

The view of everybody that is engaged in that is, how do we have to restructure our capital plan so that money we spend goes more and more toward community-based facilities. At this time, there is no need for capital money to do renovations in these facilities. I mentioned one that was brought to my attention by the management of River Ridge this morning. We've assured the manager that we are going to take a serious look at that and if we agree that it is essential to do it, then we will try to proceed. That is a capital item that has come up. I know, from time to time, we are asked by the managers to look at changing the locks. In this case, the manager at River Ridge has had that done, which is a capital item. Other than that, what we look at are the security practices of the staff. The managers assured us that everything that is required to run this facility as a secure facility within the community of Fort Smith is there. Whether or not the staff have been able to diligently follow these procedures remains to be seen. That is going to come up in the review which we are conducting right now.

We will deal with it internally because there are employees involved. I am not comfortable with discussing it in public because I am not the front line manager of this facility. I see it as a management issue. If something like that has to be done, there are other personnel issues that may come up as a result of incidents like this. At this time, while we all regret that incidents like this happen, we are relieved that nobody has been hurt.

We are feeling good. I feel confident that the managers of these facilities are doing a good job and have everything they need in place to minimize these type of incidents from happening. I spoke to them this morning and said, explicitly, that, if there are suggestions they feel they are making which are not being acted on in the way they feel comfortable with, then they should be sure to raise it with the Deputy Minister and myself, if necessary, so they feel they are not being asked to do a job that they cannot adequately do with the support and those things we have in place. The morale and feeling is good. I get a sense of teamwork. Thank you.