Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue is complex and it does involve or require a cross-jurisdictional, or cross-departmental response. One of the ways in which we're hoping to deal with that is that the social envelope is working together to try and improve on case management so that we have people in the communities who work in the different departments, whether it's Justice, Health and Social Services, or corrections, to deal with people in a case management process. We are hoping that we are going to be able to improve the way in which we deal with people who have challenges that need to be addressed.
When the Youth Criminal Justice Act was first introduced in Canada, we did see a reduction in the numbers of people who were incarcerated. It was fairly dramatic. It was something that we had expected because when previous changes to the Young Offenders Act had been brought in, we saw the same sort of reduction in the incarcerates. What we expected was that as time went on we would see an increase in numbers, and to date we are seeing an increase in the last few months over what we had seen right after the passage of the act. So, yes, there has been a substantial decrease in the numbers of people incarcerated under the Youth Criminal Justice Act compared to the Young Offenders Act, but we are seeing a trend where the numbers are increasing in our facilities. Thank you.