To reiterate here, we have roughly a $220-billion government budget that needs to be communicated to 30 million Canadians. That budget involves dozens of programs, maybe hundreds of initiatives. In order to help do that effectively, the government engaged a team of contractors who worked roughly 800 hours to write and edit roughly 400 pages and to hold five consultations with everyday Canadians in different parts of the country. They did that for about $122,000, and you're saying that would be a fairly reasonable sum of money to do that volume of work.
On May 13th, 2008. See this statement in context.