I would like to remind the chair that today's meeting is on the estimates tabled by the department and that in these estimates, there are headings listing the additional costs associated with the arrival of a large number of migrants on board the MV Sun Sea. As I see it, the issue ties in perfectly with the topic of the meeting.
I understand that these are hypothetical expenditures for next year, but you include in this year's estimates expenditures associated with the arrival of the MV Sun Sea. As parliamentarians, we would like to compare the costs incurred with the projected costs, since you are planning to ask Parliament to vote on this matter.
Have you asked your colleagues at Public Safety Canada to evaluate the cost of detaining all of these individuals? If you have not, could you put the question to them and come back to us with a figure?