I agree with you that the attorneys general have never really been held back in speaking for themselves with respect to cost. Maybe when they get talking in a room about these issues--social justice versus incarceration--for denunciation purposes, there's a rah-rah attitude. But there's also financial responsibility, particularly in provinces like mine. Yesterday we introduced a budget with a fairly large deficit.
My general comment is this. At the federal level, with every justice bill that deals with eventual incarceration, should we not have a rough costing? Often you come here with very good intentions and very good legislation, and we work on it; we work together. But quite often, because of the bifurcation of public safety and justice, you don't have the figures, really, to tell us how much these bills will cost. Shouldn't we, as a committee, get together and say that it would be a really desirable result to have those costing figures for each bill brought in?