Government Operations committee  Mr. Chairman, I can only comment with respect to the costs associated with security. I think we're mixing up different issues here. There was an estimated cost of about $930 million, including $50 million in contingency costs, but that was a budgetary estimate. An amount was also

Government Operations committee  At this point we don't know what the final security costs will be. In some cases that is because the numbers haven't come in yet. For example, the province in respect of the Ontario Provincial Police and also Toronto city and Huntsville are in for some money, but they have to sub

Government Operations committee  Okay, Mr. Chairman. It's a pleasure to be here this morning to talk about my former office's role--at the moment, I am between assignments, so I don't in fact have a specific assignment--in coordinating the security budget for the G-8 and G-20 summits. To begin, let me say a co