I probably would. I don't know what liquor prices are like. I don't go in and buy all that much hard liquor, so I'm not familiar with the prices.
But I'm sure the prices of some of these scotches now, from what I've been reading in the catalogues, are very significant. A lot of the gifts were that, but then there were other things you received like a little sculpture or a silver bowl or a clay thing. How much do those cost? I haven't the faintest idea and you'd have to go to the country where the thing was given to you to get the cost, really, because if you were bringing it home you would declare it at the value of the purchase price in that country.
When I was Speaker, I don't think I had to declare official gifts at the border. The staff had some way of saying these were official gifts, and that was that. We didn't know what the value was and we never had to find that out. How would you say to the donor, “How much does this cost? I have to tell somebody”? It's a real issue. So I'm not sure what the values were for a lot of these things. Just looking at them, I'm assuming they weren't more than $500. My staff may have done some investigating on their own while we were there, just to make sure, but I'm not totally aware of that, and I just don't remember if we had other declarations.
I'm sorry, I'm not in a good position to help you with it, but, certainly, in my view, if the figure were lower, you'd have to do a lot more appraisals. You don't expect people to be giving you gifts that are worth that much either. I was shocked that this bottle of wine was that expensive.