Public Safety committee  Certainly, Mr. Chair. In the normal course of events the border agency maintains a migration integrity officer in Haiti, whose job it is to work in the airport in Port-au-Prince checking documents, making sure the people getting on the plane are appropriately coming to Canada.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me address some of your facts and figures, sir. The amount the government set aside and originally estimated for the arming customs officers and border officers was $781 million, which was set in 2006. That number has not changed since 2006, and I ca

Public Safety committee  I am not aware that there have been, no.

Public Safety committee  I would have to get back to you on that. I am not entirely sure that we capture those statistics accurately, but I'd be happy to look into it.

Public Safety committee  Both of these initiatives were designed, in part, to respond to concerns that our officers were working under difficult, sometimes dangerous, conditions. My sense of it is that our officers feel that these two initiatives have gone some way towards responding to these concerns.

Public Safety committee  We received funds a couple of budgets ago to implement both the arming initiatives and what is generally referred to as the doubling-up initiative. This was to ensure that we would not have any ports of entry with an officer working alone. I can report that both of those initiati

Public Safety committee  The minister's explanation is quite correct. There has been a substantial movement of funds between years, which simply reflects the management of our large projects. In fact, the government has increased our operational budget by $50 million for the upcoming year.

Public Safety committee  There may well be some documents around that. Those deliberations predated my time.

Public Safety committee  I did not.

Public Safety committee  I was not.

Public Safety committee  It's occurring, yes. It started two years ago and will continue for some time to come.

Public Safety committee  The initial estimate and total project cost was $780 million. That is still the estimated cost.

Public Safety committee  It has not gone up at all.

Public Safety committee  At this time, perhaps I could ask Deputy Commissioner Souccar to comment.

Public Safety committee  I am not.