I can neither confirm nor deny for you that there would be any potential costs in a given investigation, in terms of witness management. Certainly, we have no analysis that tells us there will be, as a result of implementing this bill, immediate costs to municipalities—clearly not. What I was talking about, for clarity, was that in a given investigation where the responsibility for that investigation is a municipal responsibility, that latter bears the whole costs of that investigation, subject of course to whatever provincial support we can provide or whatever federal support might be there, either through this program or through other policing services.
On March 19th, 2013. See this statement in context.