The RCMP is responsible for the federal witness protection program. It is robust. It's being used in every province in Canada. The complexity and the cost of running the program is enormous. To put a cost on an individual witness is almost impossible, because it depends on whether we are simply relocating the person to another part of the country or changing the person's identity, together with the family's, and backstopping all the information behind this effort.
It's important in our attacks against organized crime to continue this program and to continue to supply the funding necessary to move these witnesses and to give them a sense of security. When they come into the program, they have to know that they're going to be protected. If we fail to use the program, and fail to get those witnesses, it's going to become harder and harder for police agencies to infiltrate organized crime to the very core.