Mr. Chairman, this goes back to an earlier question I was asked about the cost of holding a summit like the G-8 and the G-20. The Parliamentary Budget Officer made the point, and I think it's a fair one and it is true of Canada, that many other countries have, in comparison to Canada, a much greater security infrastructure, if one is thinking specifically of security events like the G-8 and the G-20. The reality is, if you already have all of the equipment, if you have all of the people, it is much easier to deploy, it's much less expensive to do. That, for us, in some sense, because we do all of that de novo, we do it from the beginning--we have to bring in the people from across the country and we have to buy the equipment, or rent the equipment in most cases, for the G-8 and the G-20--makes it a more expensive event than would otherwise be the case.
Certainly, in the context of accountability, we provided the Parliamentary Budget Officer with everything we had that he had requested. In some cases, we simply didn't have the numbers. In the case of the Auditor General, although my office has now closed up, right after the completion of the G-8 and the G-20, we spent some considerable time with them trying to provide them with numbers and background so that they could go on with their work. In point of fact, they'll be going back, and have been going back, to the various departments and agencies to understand the specifics of specific contracts or specific purchases or specific rentals, rather than in our files, which were much more dedicated to the coordination of all of that rather than managing each one of those specific contracts.