Thank you, Madam Chair. I just have a couple of questions just for clarify and for the record. The rehabilitation and re -- you know, having inmates going back into society, a lot of the programs that were in place before have disappeared. Some of the programs, like some of the inmates in the Fort Smith facilities were able to work in a workplace. That's not happening anymore. And I'm wondering why that was taken away. They used to go clean all the yards for all the seniors, you know, and all these other smaller things. And it happened for years. Then all of a sudden, it disappeared. And I'd just like to see some of that programming come back into the facilities so that the facilities that are situated where they are have a better understanding of their -- there are, you know, most of these offenders have records but it's repeat offenders, and most of them are Indigenous, and trying to get them back into society is -- that's one of the ways we do it, make work programs. And you know with the shortage of common work, whether it be working at Tim Hortons or pumping gas or petrol or anything, I think we have to start encouraging that program to come back to the facilities. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Frieda Martselos on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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