Thank you.
There was reference made to cabinet confidences and Parliament. Parliament doesn't force cabinet to reveal cabinet confidences, for reasons that we all understand. It could, but it doesn't.
However, just the fact that a weather forecaster somewhere gives a weather report to the cabinet doesn't mean the weather report becomes a secret document. The data are there, and the information doesn't have to come from the cabinet.
I want to ask Mr. Dechert, who will try to speak for the government, if consultation was had with the provinces—whose provincial reformatories would bear the burden of this sixfold to sevenfold increase in the mandatory minimums on this section alone—and whether there was a workup on the additional incarceration costs that would be imposed on the provinces.
It's a simple question. I'll just ask it to him. I'm happy to have whatever answer it is—yes, no, or maybe.