It's not the mandate of the parliamentary budget office to opine upon government policy.
What I would say is, similar to the Government of Canada's gun buyback program, where we received a request from a committee to put a number, a cost estimate, on something where the government did not have a cost estimate, this seems to be a similar situation where there seems to be a broad qualitative consensus that there is underfunding for these services and there seems to be no official number available to anyone. As a starting point to come up with an estimate of how much additional money may be required.... I think it behooves somebody—potentially, it's certainly within our mandate or other people could do it—but simply putting a number around it is a good starting point to support parliamentarians in having a very healthy policy debate.