Well, first of all, I would agree that our budgeting processes are far more open and transparent than in other venues that I'm aware of. I can tell you that the collaborative working relationship, the integration that exists between the law enforcement agencies of this country, led in large part by the RCMP, but including the provincial police and the municipal police services, is excellent. We've been working together well for years, and we've planned major events together for years. We just had the experience of all working collaboratively on the Olympics security planning, for instance, so there was a model upon which we could build.
I put some of my best people into the integrated planning team. We worked very collaboratively, and I felt that the concerns of the Toronto police were respected and our viewpoints were valued throughout. We worked very carefully together to ensure that there was an appropriate delineation of responsibility and no overlaps to manage our expenditures.
It was a compressed period of time for planning. I would have liked to have had more time. In hindsight, I'm not sure that more time would have been necessarily impactful. I think we were ready to deal with what took place. The fact is that the security of the summit site was at no time compromised, and from a security standpoint for that major event, which was primarily why we had all gathered, we were very successful in providing security.
We were also aware, as I think one can reasonably anticipate, that there will be demonstrations and perhaps even violence, and we were prepared for that. You can't prevent every crime, but when it began I think we were able to maintain the peace and to protect the people of Toronto. So we did have the resources necessary to do our job.