Thank you. I’ll have the department look to see if there’s any mandatory programming in other jurisdictions, but at the end of the day, making a program mandatory does not mean it will be successful. As individuals are suffering with addictions and other issues, they

have to be ready for the healing journey, and if you force them to take it, you’re not going to get positive results. We make the programming available, we have really high calibre, high quality case managers who can work with the inmates when they come into the facilities to help them prepare for a healing journey and make the programming available to them. We’ve got the programming available.

In the last budget round, Members of the Legislative Assembly worked with us to put more money into programming in the Hay River facility. So we’ve got a lot of really good programming. Yes, of course, we can always try to enhance the programming and make it more effective, but I’m not convinced that making it mandatory is going to give us results if the people aren’t ready to utilize the program and if they’re not ready to take the healing journey, forcing them into a program that they’re not interested in being will not prove results. People have to take some personal responsibility. We’re there to help them. We’re there to help them into the programming and get the healing that they need. Thank you.