Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming, Chief Blair. At the outset, let me say that I represent a riding just north of Toronto, and I know the York Regional Police had a role to play as well. I was extraordinarily proud of the efforts of not only the Toronto police force, the RCMP, and the OPP, but also of York region.
I'm going to ask you the question that I think the opposition has been desperate to ask for weeks, and for some reason they just won't simply come out and ask it. Of course, I know the answer, but on their behalf, I'm going to ask the question: did you deliberately pad the expenses or overestimate what it would cost to secure the event in order to deliberately rip off the taxpayers of Canada?