Again, there are always difficulties in trying to estimate in advance when you go into a deployment area as to what it is going to cost. I pointed out that many of the costs are fixed costs, in the sense that we own the equipment, we pay the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces.
I've been very up front that there will be incremental costs, of course, but our testimony here is not about the deployment of taxpayers' money. It's about the deployment of Canadian men and women in uniform and making sure they have the capability and support that they need and deserve. This mission is about the human cost of doing nothing, of standing on the sidelines, which has not been a Canadian tradition or indeed a Canadian value.