Madam Chair, there are a number of things and I think there are a couple of questions here, but they are linked and they are connected. Recently, and I'm thinking in the last year or so now, we've had income support workers from ECE go into our facilities to make sure they're working with case workers and with inmates, because each inmate has a post-incarceration plan that is developed with them, and for them to help them be better integrated into the communities when they leave. So we have other agencies involved in that. But even before that, if I could back up just a step, we have made a philosophical shift in recent years and we've talked I think a lot about moving away from warehousing prisoners, to working with prisoners and ensuring there is programming in our facilities, literacy, numeracy, job skills, related programming so that people have an easer time integrating. So those are some of the things that we are doing, but I can assure the Members that we are interested in working in a comprehensive way to make sure people have the best chance of getting back into society and living a meaningful life and not re-offending.

Separate and apart from that, I think the Member asked a question about people being released into communities whether on parole or just outright released. There are protocols in the RCMP that if people are a perceived threat to the community, the RCMP will release their names and notify the communities that they're coming back to, but it's on a balance. They make a determination about whether or not it's in the public good, or if there's a need to release that information also respecting the need for privacy. So that is the test that the RCMP conduct and they have protocols that deal with this. If they think there's the potential for a threat and if they feel that the community should be notified, then they do so. Thank you, Madam Chair.