Mr. Chairman, the courts provide sentencing that sometimes calls for specifically secure facilities, and bush camps are not anywhere near that definition. By law, we are compelled to continue providing secure custody facilities. The work we are now doing is not to be abandoned in order to support the development of community proposals to provide open custody facilities. The facility runs about $2 million per year and we are not in any position to start robbing
these facilities and downgrading the services we provide in them to try out community-based pilot projects in the areas which the Member is discussing and supporting at this time. We are, in any case, very interested in supporting the development of community-based proposals which would look at proposing programs and facilities particularly for young offenders. I do not think it is necessary at this time to suggest that we should write the facilities and give it all to community proposals. I think with the type of reviews and work we are doing to support community-based facilities, that we hopefully will be in a position to do that without having to downgrade or start taking resources away from the existing programs.