Mr. Speaker, there will be additional funds that I will seek, but the cost to this point in time in terms of the Canadian forces is approximately $32 million in incremental costs going back to the first deployment of the CF-18s. However, there will be additional costs and there are efforts being put together now to get those numbers ready for members of the House.
I also want to indicate that I appreciate the comments of the hon. member with respect to the well-being of our troops. Interestingly enough, I received some additional comments from citizens, for example, of Calgary. This is addressed to the hon. member for Compton—Stanstead, the Conservative defence critic. He addresses the member by saying:
Your comments regarding soldiers in Kosovo are very dangerous and damaging to any ground troops that are undercover in that war.
He said:
Get real man. If those comments were made for political gain then you come up a big loser.