Accountability is genuinely priceless. I think there will be costs. For Bill C-2, Mr. Flaherty has some funds in his budget. I'm cautious about saying how much we have budgeted for each and every element because we're going to try to contain it to an absolute minimum. There is a price for accountability. It has been public that we had allocated in the budget.... The previous government had allocated $16 million for strengthening the internal audit function. I think there's virtually unanimous agreement that this is a good thing. There will be an additional amount of some $50 million. Hopefully we can get it to less; it might be a bit more, but we're going to work to ensure that it's as little as possible.
If we can reduce things such as the sponsorship scandal, the HRDC scandal, and the lack of accountability in the gun control program, I think it would be a huge savings to taxpayers in the short term--not even the long term.