Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of our officials for joining us here this morning.
Mr. Pentney, as you know, I was on the justice committee previously, a little over two years ago, and served in the position of parliamentary secretary for a while. I have always been very impressed with the professionalism of the Department of Justice officials. Canadians need to know what a fine job our Department of Justice officials do in helping to administer our justice system.
The minister, in his opening remarks, referred to a variance in the supplementary estimates of about $320,000. With respect, I think he said it was to an individual posted in Paris, a Canadian mission in Paris.
I previously served on the foreign affairs committee. We heard many times about the differential in cost between posting somebody known as a Canadian-based employee or staff, versus a locally hired person at any of our missions around the world.
Do you have a view on what the cost differential is between those two ways of posting people or having people at missions abroad? Can you give us some additional information about the kinds of things our justice officials do at our foreign missions abroad?