Let me ask you this, then, Minister: At the first meeting studying this bill, we had some of your departmental officials here. Some of them are here again today. I asked whether a cost analysis had been done, because we're adding reporting requirements, new regulations, advisory committees and data-reporting requirements. The answer was no. There was no cost analysis done as to what impact—whether it's on a small or large port—all these new provisions were going to have. We asked some of the witnesses. We had varying answers, depending on the size of the port—from a cost of $200,000 to adding two additional employees when implementing the provisions of Bill C-33.
It seems to me as though you're adding all this cost. How do you justify the fact that no cost analysis was done up front and that you're just going to foist this upon the ports?