When we last had intensive discussions with the Correctional Service of Canada about the possibility of bringing more inmates north, they backed off because of the capital costs that would have been involved for them for the same reasons the Minister just said, we did not have extra space. It would have required adding space to what we already have and adding program space. When you have people incarcerated for lengthy periods of time like that, it is especially important to have program space. We are just at the most preliminary stage of trying to reopen some kind of discussion on that level in the hope that in the context of division the Correctional Service of Canada would be more interested in some further development work. We have recently visited several facilities in Saskatchewan, including the federal facility for women at Maple Creek, the federal penitentiary at Prince Albert and a smaller facility run by the Prince Albert Band Council, an aboriginally run program jointly funded by the federal government and the provincial government. That gave us a lot of ideas of a very diverse range of possibilities, some of which would not work for us at all and some which might have some application. We are at that stage of doing some early investigations in order to have more information before we formally approach the Correctional Service of Canada.
Ms. Sanders on Committee Motion 17-13(5): Recommendation To Review And Amend The Labour Standards Act
In the Legislative Assembly on February 19th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 17-13(5): Recommendation To Review And Amend The Labour Standards Act
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 1998
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