"October 9, 2008".

Includes bibliographical references.

Types of Costs Incurred by Canada -- Future Costs -- Methodology for Estimating the Incremental Cost of the Afghanistan Mission -- Relationship Between Cost Drivers -- Cost Assessment Criteria -- Cost Benchmarks -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendices.

The objective of this paper is to describe the methodology used by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) to capture the incremental costs of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan. This paper contains a detailed discussion of estimating direct and indirect costs, various costs incurred by different government departments engaged in supporting the Afghanistan mission, cost drivers and the relationship between cost drivers and costs in a steady state versus a theatre of war situation.