Statement of Expenditures for the Air India Trial¹

Courts - Trial Support and Security Operating Expenditures	$7,753,052
Prosecution Expenditures
Pre-trial²	$5,610,144
Prosecution except for Witnesses and Victim Services	$13,249,967
Expert and non-expert witnesses	$1,759,333
Victim Services	$1,766,623
Prosecution total	$22,386,067
Justice Services Expenditures
Defence Funding	$22,026,914
(Less PST charges included)	($945,105)
Defence Funding before PST	$21,081,809
Administrative	$357,717
Justice Services total	$21,439,526
Corrections - Operating/Custody Expenditures	$1,958,581
Management Services - Administrative Support Expenditures	$230,718
Total Expenditures before Amortization Expense	$53,767,944
Amortization Expense
Capital costs³	$7,825,453
Less: net book value	$3,815,903
Air India Share	$4,009,550
Total Expenditures before Federal Contributions	$57,777,494
Less Federal Contribution⁴	($27,506,527)

Total Provincial Contribution⁵	$30,270,967

NOTES:

1 The costs represent the expenditures made by British Columbia to mount the Air India trial, excluding police costs. The costs begin with preparations by a small prosecution team starting in 1996; costs for construction, prosecution and defence teams and pre-trial motions after charges were laid in October 2000; and the trial itself, which began in April 2003 and ended in March 2005. The federal government contributed $1M to BC in the early case preparation phase, then starting in 2001 agreed to contribute approximately 50 per cent of the costs of the trial, including 100 per cent of victim services costs.

2 In addition to preparations for the trial by prosecutors of British Columbia's Criminal Justice Branch, the Branch also conducted a prosecution resulting in a conviction in 1991 relating to the Air India case.

3 Capital costs are costs such as those incurred to build the high-security Courtroom 20 where the trial took place. The full capital costs cannot be attributed to the Air India case because, for example, British Columbia's court system can now use the courtroom for other cases after the Air India trial. The "amortization" figure therefore represents that part of the capital costs attributable to the Air India case. The "net book value" figure represents the value of the capital assets not attributable to the Air India trial. The federal government did not contribute to British Columbia's capital costs for the Air India trial.

4 British Columbia’s claim for federal contributions for the past two years is being audited by the federal government.

5 Not included in this figure are any wind-up costs in 2005/06.

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