Government Operations committee  That's a difficult question, given the volume. We'll have most of our expenditures in over the next few months. That's about as much as I can confirm. We have a good portion of them in now. Certainly by the end of the fiscal year, we'll have all our costs in. We have to deal with

Government Operations committee  Yes, a bidding process was held, and a few companies submitted bids. As I mentioned, it started on December 3. We—

Government Operations committee  Under free-trade agreements, we cannot take American companies out of the running. A process was held.

Government Operations committee  It won, yes. The process was open, and someone oversaw it to—

Government Operations committee  It is not for us to tell them where to get their resources—

Government Operations committee  We pay, but the company put in an excellent bid. We had tried something else the summer before, and it ended up costing twice as much. We got permission from Treasury Board directly, and we went with a different bid, and the cost dropped by half. In light of that, we did not need

Government Operations committee  Thank you. For those types of assets that have a limited shelf life, we would put those into operations and credit back the cost to the event.

Government Operations committee  We're in the process of doing that; I don't have that right now. We're in the process of factoring--

Government Operations committee  That's right. We credit back to the G-8.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we do have some distinction on the budget cycle, but many of our costs were blended, so we had a blended cost structure for both G-8 and G-20. I don't have that breakdown. I can supply it, though.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I guess for part of the rationale, I think Chief Superintendent MacNeil can speak to that, to why we went to a private security firm. It was a question of capacity there. As we were going forward and planning for the summits—I won't steal the show here—there was a que

Government Operations committee  Oh, absolutely. We also had in the process a fairness monitor who reviewed the process.

Government Operations committee  In some instances.... For the fencing, we negotiated some lease arrangements with businesses or proprietors where the fence would be located, so we compensated basically on a lease arrangement for--

Government Operations committee  I'd have to get that.

Government Operations committee  Off the top, I don't have it with me, but I can get back to you on that.