I'm with the legal bureau at foreign affairs. We did a fairly informal assessment of the possible cost. The only comparable mechanism that we could see was the Human Rights Commission. Of course, at this point, it would be truly guesswork, because you don't know how many complaints would come forward.
The way the bill is drafted is that literally billions of people could theoretically file a complaint, because any Canadian, or any person in a country where a Canadian company operates, could bring a complaint. The possibility for receiving complaints is virtually endless. At this point, even a frivolous complaint would have to be investigated in order to determine whether it's founded.
So it's very difficult to put a dollar figure on it, but it also needs to be taken into consideration that any investigation would have to necessarily take place abroad. In simply setting up a mechanism that requires Canadian officials to set up shop abroad for any period of time, the resource implications are quite considerable, even allowing for the difficulty necessarily in getting the permission of the host state so that they can enter to carry out such an investigation.
We don't have an exact figure because of all the uncertainties, but it would clearly be in the millions.