You would be concerned, of course, regarding this question of the integrity of the program, that in future, people who might want to participate in the program might have learned about the fact that the commissioner, in a particular case, decided it was in the public interest to disclose the identity, and that might jeopardize the usefulness of the program. With many of these witnesses, it's not just them making these choices; they have pretty qualified lawyers who are working with them, and they know the ins and outs of the program.
If a person is in the witness protection program and let's say is convicted of murder, there's a process, as you say, of taking them out of the witness protection program, and there are appeal processes. But let's say that person, for example, was incarcerated in a jail—hopefully if they are convicted of murder that's where they would be--and let's say, under the witness protection program, they had certain relatives who were also protected, or they had various arrangements. Obviously, the person would be in a prison, and their well-being would be.... They'd be fed and they'd be taken care of in prison, so they're not receiving any financial contribution from the Government of Canada other than the fact that they're incarcerated in a prison. But let's say they had other arrangements for relatives and other expenses that the RCMP had committed to. Would those continue while this person was incarcerated?