Mr. Chairman, I think there's a misunderstanding at the base of the question. There was a number, which was bandied around in a number of newspaper stories, I think, that suggested there had been a budgetary amount of roughly $179 million. Perhaps it was because it was in a committee of the other place, but I said at the time, immediately after the tabling of supplementary estimates (C), which contained that number of $179 million, that $179 million was in no way the final budget for security for the G-8 and the G-20.
The reality is, when you're planning a major security event like the G-8 and the G-20, until you actually have a plan you don't know precisely what the cost will be. We found that out in the case of the Olympics. The Olympic estimate done by a group in British Columbia turned out to be wildly inaccurate, and for the same reason we did not announce a budgetary cost for the G-8 and the G-20 until we in fact had a plan that we could cost out.
As I said earlier, the estimated budgetary cost was $930 million, with a $50 million contingency fund. As I also said, we don't know what the final cost will be. I have no reason to believe that it will be in excess of that $930 million. In fact, I would expect it to probably be less, on the numbers I have seen so far. They are only partial returns, but I would expect it probably to be less.
In the case of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Toronto Police, they will submit their numbers, those numbers will be audited as required under the public safety program, and then we will get closer to what a final budgetary cost will be.