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Government Operations committee Then the breakdown between the RCMP in Toronto and Ontario was.... I can't remember the exact numbers. I'd have to get them for you. The issue, however, isn't simply salaries, Mr. Chairman. It's also equipment. It's also services that had to be put in place.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chair, there are two things. In terms of the municipal and provincial police, although there was an integrated security unit, each police force was responsible for its own area of jurisdiction. They would have incurred in those areas whatever expenses they would normally inc
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, this goes back to an earlier question I was asked about the cost of holding a summit like the G-8 and the G-20. The Parliamentary Budget Officer made the point, and I think it's a fair one and it is true of Canada, that many other countries have, in comparison to Ca
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, I think there's a misunderstanding at the base of the question. There was a number, which was bandied around in a number of newspaper stories, I think, that suggested there had been a budgetary amount of roughly $179 million. Perhaps it was because it was in a commi
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, let me just deal with the question of why not use the Canadian Forces. The suggestion has been made on a number of occasions and I have responded in earlier interviews once or twice to the question. The use of the Canadian Forces in situations where you'd have arm
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, that's not what I said at all.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee That isn't what I said at all, Mr. Chairman. What I said was that different countries account for things in different ways. In some cases it can be as simple as how many police officers you have in the jurisdiction. In the case of the U.K., they can bring all of the police office
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee That's right.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee I don't know what their expenditures will ultimately be. We had a sense of what their estimated budgetary expenditures would be, but until they actually submit their costs, we won't know precisely what it was.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee I don't know precisely when that will be, but in the case of Ontario and the City of Toronto and Huntsville, it will depend on when they actually submit those costs, and the auditing of those costs, which is required under the program.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee No, I don't think any expenditures are accruing, but the final accounting hasn't been done yet.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, on the $523 million, I don't believe a final number has been announced, although I think there was a story in the newspaper to that effect. Whether that's accurate or not, I don't know. In fact, the numbers for security were higher. I think the $523 million was only
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, in respect of security spending, which is the only part I can comment on, infrastructure spending was not part of the security budget. It's not included in the $930 million, so you'd have to go somewhere else for those numbers. We weren't responsible for those. In
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee Mr. Chairman, Contemporary Security won the contract. It's my understanding that in fact the contract was conditional on their securing the requisite authorities, and in fact they did acquire the requisite authority to operate in Ontario before the event.
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock
Government Operations committee I have been asked to comment on that in the past and I would say the same thing I have said before. The reality is that different countries account for the amounts they spend on those events in different ways, and some countries.... Canada is probably, and I assume it's to our cr
October 19th, 2010Committee meeting
Ward Elcock