Once again, I have a rather utilitarian question, but it really isn't. It has to do with prevention and preventing the terrible thing from happening.
Leaving aside the tremendous emotional and physical damage to people that it would cause, I'm wondering if your department, Mr. Day, has looked at the costs of doing business in order to prevent terrorism, to prevent the bad thing from happening, against the costs that would occur if the bad thing did in fact happen.
We have some examples that can help us do those costings. A lot of people will say these things are costing us too much money and that we should really put these dollars to another use. I'm looking primarily at the terrible experience of 9/11 and the huge costs. The whole world is paying for that, from the increased insurance costs to the need for countries to upgrade and learn from the mistakes made there.
Have you done a cost analysis with regard to prevention--in other words, the things that we're doing and their protracted costs over several years? As well, if something bad happened, you might have a scenario, because we now know what some of the targets were; in that case, what would the cost be to provide social assistance to people who are not housed anymore, as well as everything else?