My PAL/RPAL course was $100 each. $200 total. This was Ontario just over a decade ago.
Class had about 20 students, with primary instructor and assistant, and two testers (practical and written) who came in for three hours the last day.
All ammo was fake {plastic, snap caps, bullet&brass but no powder no primer and sometimes with an extra hole in the side of the brass in addition to the primer hole}. Firearms without firing pins where that was easy to do. No shooting.