CORNWALL, Ont. - The latest figures from the long-running Project Truth inquiry in Cornwall, Ont., show the cost of the effort now exceeds $31 million.
The bill includes a grant of more than $3 million to the City of Cornwall to offset the cost of having police officers testify.
The tab also includes legal costs for various government agencies, including provincial police and the Ministry of the Attorney General.
A government spokesman has said the inquiry, which began in 2006, is scheduled to wrap in July at the earliest.
The inquiry is examining how authorities responded to allegations of widespread sexual abuse in the community in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cornwall police laid 114 charges against 15 men in the 1990s, but few cases made it to court and police said they never found evidence of a pedophile ring.
