The total amount that was budgeted for ten years basically represents the investment to convert an unarmed force to an armed force at the border. A lot of the costs that we have to incur, and we have incurred, go to building capacity to build clear policies and directions so that our officers can safely use the firearms appropriately. It's gone to the creation of a training capacity to make sure that we have good, qualified trainers, and we've worked with qualified forces around the country, including the RCMP.
It goes to making sure that we have range time for proper practice for our officers and it goes also to the modifications we make to our training or we are in the course of making to our training centre in Rigaud to make sure that we have a permanent capacity to run this program effectively so our officers are safe and the travelling public can be assured that they are qualified to use the firearms.
I think when you look at the cost of the program, a good barometer of what it costs to actually run it will be the permanent ongoing costs, which will be a little over $100 million a year. I appreciate it's not a small amount, but that will represent the true cost of having an armed force at the Canadian border.