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The government also anticipates no additional federal costs for proposals that would end house arrest for property and other serious crimes and eliminate pardons for violent and repeat offenders.

There are also no new funding requirements attached to amending the International Transfer of Offenders Act, according to government figures.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews tabled the breakdown at the end of a Commons committee hearing. Both ministers spent the hearing on the hot seat trying to defend the bill.

Before Thursday, the government had not provided a full costing and relied instead on a 2008 Justice Department study that estimated crime costs Canadians $99 billion a year and that much of it is “borne by victims.”

The figures released Thursday, however, do not take into account additional costs the provinces and territories may be forced to bear.

Under opposition questioning on the matter, Nicholson suggested it’s not really an issue.

“The provinces are very well aware of what we are doing,” he said, later noting the provinces even “asked us to bring these laws forward.

“It’s been at least four years since I introduced this bill before Parliament and they have underlined to me what a problem drug trafficking is within the provinces, so again, they’re well aware of the components of this bill.”

Meanwhile, Canada’s budget watchdog confirmed Thursday that he will undertake a full cost analysis of the Safe Streets and Communities Act, which passed second reading last week.