Mr. Chair, I certainly couldn't be precise with that. The only thing I could offer for the committee's consideration is that I recall about three years ago a representative of the Canadian Professional Police Association indicated that the previous firearms acquisition certificate regime—the costs of which, as you know, were distributed across the country with different police forces—cost, he estimated on behalf of the association, around $30 million per year.
It would be very difficult to verify the veracity of that estimate. All you can do is look at the total costs since the implementation of the Firearms Act. Of course, some of those costs replace costs that would been incurred previously to administer the old regime, but I don't believe anyone has attempted to analyze the incremental costs.