To give the agreement shape, a committee was formed to facilitate cooperation between the three organizations and maintain the commitment of resources to ensure the success of the agreement. The committee is also an ideal forum for exchange of information between the community agencies represented and the two levels of government.
Numerous benefits flow from the tripartite agreement and the committee.
This article examines some of the most significant of these benefits. Privately run residential centres play a leading role in Quebec Region's pursuit of the Correctional Service of Canada's number one corporate objective, which is to safely reintegrate offenders into the community as law-abiding citizens, while resorting as little as possible to the use of incarceration as a correctional intervention. Given the number of centres available and the needs of the federal and provincial correctional services, joint service contracts make it possible to rationalize and reduce costs, plan for development, and therefore also ensure that the centres themselves have a degree of financial security. There are many residential and accommodation centres in Quebec that enter into service contracts with the two levels of government. This assures the centres of a larger potential clientele and allows the federal and Quebec provincial correctional services to diversify resources in one with their budget constraints.