Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Brendan Bell. Mr. Bell gave a Minister's statement today talking about community justice and some of the pilot projects and some of the innovative things that are being done on the community justice front in our communities. I have to agree that it would appear that we are gaining good results from some of these things. I would like to commend the Minister and his department for that. However, Mr. Speaker, recently, a situation has been drawn to my attention. I believe it has been drawn to the Minister's attention as well, where our local courts are being called upon to sentence people who are known to be addicted to crack cocaine. Sometimes these individuals, rather than go to jail, are being given conditional sentences. They are being placed under house arrest.
I would like to ask the Minister if he does not see a gap in that type of scenario where somebody who the courts know is addicted to drugs is sentenced to house arrest and with no other, and obviously instructed to abstain, but with no other resource to back them up at the community level; no other program, counselling, or any direction provided to them and no resource available. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.