Thank you for that, because it's obviously a public concern; a $100,000 joyride is unwarranted. It's something that I think certainly raises the hackles of people in my constituency, so it would be important to know what the process is.
I would like to move on to the whole issue of what's being cut and what's being increased. One of my colleagues mentioned the PCO increase.
There's also been a marked increase in the budget for prisons. We know that if we put money into crime prevention we actually save money at the end of the line. The normal rule of thumb is that a dollar invested in crime prevention saves about six dollars in policing costs, in court costs, and prison costs later on.
So I'm wondering, around the government's move forward to increase the prison budget, is there, within either the Treasury Board or the Privy Council Office, a vehicle to evaluate whether that's the best use of public funds or whether that money should go to address the cutbacks that we've seen in crime prevention budgets?