Thank you for your question.
The cost analysis we undertook involved the $8.4 million published by the RCMP. It's important to reiterate that the Auditor General reportedly notes that the cost is importantly underreported—inaccurately reported, in fact. It flouts the important parliamentary obligations of elected officials, like yourselves, who normally have great due diligence and responsibility and care to oversee the spending of government, and, I would have thought, normally would be upset to find out that members of the bureaucracy would purposely, in violation of the dictates of the Auditor General, flout—