R.J. Simpson

Thank you, Madam Chair. So for people who are in the system, their case worker can help them with those types of things. It's applicationbased. It's under the federal government so it's not the Department of Justice who would be doing that. And I can also say that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, through the income assistance program, will help people who don't have the funds to go through that process to get their record expunged. Thank you.

Thank you. So in addition to the director, we have four pathfinders and I believe there's also an intern so that would be five. Thanks.

Thank you. So for a while there, there was very few people going through the therapeutic community. I think there's four or five right now. And so these are relatively low numbers. This is not a fund for everyone who is incarcerated. It is only for those people going through the therapeutic community. And so far, we haven't seen indication that we need to increase it. But as we have more experience, we'll be able to make that determination. Thank you.

Thank you. I believe we currently have nine officers under that program. Thank you.

Thank you. And this was mentioned earlier, and I wanted to comment on it but I didn't. But the Department of Justice does receive a lot of federal funding through agreements. Those agreements never seem to line up well with the main estimates process and so we'll often come here with a line item of zero or a certain number that will then be adjusted through a supplementary appropriation once we sign that agreement. So Members will probably be seeing a bit of that in here. But for a specific answer, I'd hand it to Mr. Bancroft. Thank you.

Thank you. And we're always open to partnerships. Justice is not really the department best suited to deal with people's, you know, housing issues, addictions issues, things like that. You know, while they're in the system, we do have programming but once they're out of the system, they're out of the system. And so we really do need partnerships. We need to work with Indigenous governments. We do have programming that or program dollars that we provide to Indigenous governments. The men's healing fund was one of those. There are initiatives across Canada. Indigenous justice institutes, things...

Thank you. And I've had a number of conversations with the Member about this. You know, I think that integrated service delivery is something that needs to be I guess be dictated from the top down. So I think that under the Premier's office would, you know, be a fine location for that. However, integrated case management is with Justice and the staff know how to operate that program. They've been doing a great job. And so that is why it is continuing to be in the in Justice in this budget. Thank you.

I'm sorry, if the Member could repeat the question; I didn't quite catch the end.

Thank you. So we work with the RCMP to determine resourcing levels, and if there are increases that they are requesting then we can work with them to implement those. And depending on the type of service, generally we pay 70 percent and the federal government pays 30 percent of those costs. We do have the First Nation and Inuit policing program where it is more of a 50/50 cost sharing split. Thank you.

I'll hand it to the deputy minister.