We are trying to plan. We don’t think that this is something… We recognize there are some technical aspects, legislative aspects to what the Member is asking. What we need to do is we need to plan for it. We want to make sure that we are doing this right. Our responsibility is fairly clear, that if we have individuals that are prepared to divert from… If the court is going to divert an individual to some counselling, to take him out on the land, to deal with him in a different manner, keep him with the family, do the various things that are needed, then we do have the programs in place.
As the Member says, it’s not going to be a real high cost. In fact, we view it in the social envelope Ministers as, actually, a cost-saving measure. We recognize that if we’re able to keep individuals from just going into a corrections system, that we’re saving thousands of dollars a month for every year that we’re able to keep one individual out of the corrections system and into counselling, working with the community, doing things that we think would be positive for the individual to possibly remain in the community and do other things that they would be required to do as directed by the court. We don’t think it’s going to cost money but we think it’s something that we have to plan. We would like the opportunity to discuss this, plan it and do it properly, and we think that by providing what we have in place already, we intend to eventually put this in place. When we do put it in place, we want it to work and we don’t want to be picking people up and then putting them in jail for a longer period of time because they didn’t listen to the court order. We want to have a system that individuals can flow into and have success here and save real dollars by keeping people out of corrections.