Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today, in his Member's statement, the Member talked about ministerial responsibility and I can't quibble with anything he said in terms of what goes along with ministerial responsibility, and I accept that I am responsible for any issues that happen within the departments for which I am responsible. Mr. Speaker, the corrections human resources review and report clearly confirmed that there were human resource problems that went back some time. Some of the issues identified, in fact, go back well before I was appointed Minister for the department. When concerns started to be raised after my appointment, I felt at the time that it was reasonable to believe that the change in the function for the operations and that the impending move from one facility to another were part of the issues that were causing the problems. Knowing the results of the review; clearly, I am sorry that I didn't order a review to take place sooner.

Just to the Member's point in his statement as well, yesterday he asked if I would apologize, and I used the word "regrettable." I meant to use the word "regret" which does mean the same as an apology. So, yes, I am sorry that the problems developed to the level that they did. Clearly the report that was done has identified that there were issues. Clearly we should have moved on them more quickly and, Mr. Speaker, some of them go back to well before my time. But that said, since the report has come out, I have moved very quickly to address the issues that have been identified. We are going to address all of them all with the staff involved. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.