Government Operations committee  There are actually two funding streams for the G8 and the G20. One covers security and one the organization of the meetings. Personally, I was responsible for organizing all the preparatory meetings, as I mentioned, the ministerial meetings, and so on. I—

Government Operations committee  But I have to stick to a budget for organization too, Mr. Vincent.

Government Operations committee  I started with $249 million.

Government Operations committee  That was for the two meetings.

Government Operations committee  That was not the budget we started with because we had to—

Government Operations committee  Like Mr. Elcock, we prepared briefs for submission to cabinet for G8 preparations. At the end of September 2009, when the G20 summit was announced, we redid the process and we added the G20 budget. The two budgets together, from my end, come to $249 million.

Government Operations committee  The G20 announcement was made by the Prime Minister in Korea in November. Starting right then, we began to prepare documents in order to draw up our budgets. We worked with experts and they took part in the budgeting process. Of course, we used some of the fundamentals that had a

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you this morning to talk about Canada's G8 and G20 summits in June. Hosting a meeting of the world's political leaders is a massive undertaking. Canada hosted two such meetings back to back over the