Seventy billion. Now, I've never gone into determining what makes up this cost, whether it's mental health services, hospitalization, police services, all of these things, but that's generally the number that was accepted. I believe that report could be dated by now; I can't remember the exact date of it. But that was the analysis that was done.
The other cost I mentioned is the psychological damage to individuals who are frightened to go outside of their houses at night—not only at night, but during the day. You have heard stories, and most of us MPs have heard them. There are the older seniors living in poor neighbourhoods who have to walk down the street to buy their groceries; they are worried about making it to the store with the money and, just as importantly, making it home with the groceries. These are tremendous costs that can't even begin to be calculated.
When people talk about a break and enter into a dwelling house as a non-violent crime, that is the most serious misrepresentation of a crime there could ever be. The psychological damage to someone who has had their house broken into in that fashion is irreparable. There's a constant fear in your own house that your privacy, your person, has been violated. There is no way of placing a cost on that. What we can do is to put people away who choose to break into people's houses. We know that during the course of time that they are not out on the street, they aren't committing break and enters.
Most of the break and enters are committed by a very small group of the total criminal element, and if you lock up those individuals, you'll see the rate of break and enters drop dramatically. For example, when I was the Attorney General of Manitoba and we arrested the Manitoba Warriors--there were about 50, as I recall, perhaps more--in a massive swoop on that organization, the rate of break and enters during that time dropped very, very significantly. It was all attributable to a few people in that organization doing break and enters, not only in the city of Winnipeg, but in the outlying areas.