Mr. Chair, the answer is that no one can know, just as no one could know the cost of building a health care system, just as no one could know the cost of building an education system. Those are things that people in the future will decide for themselves, knowing all that they will know in the future, all of what their ambitions are. They will make that decision for themselves.
In the House of Commons on May 31st, 2005. See this statement in context.