Finance committee  I don't think so. There are legislative options and non-legislative options.

Finance committee  I do not have much to add to what I have already said. Indeed, as the chair was explaining, the Board of Management has never dealt with this sort of thing; only the minister and the Agency were informed. We are working with the community and we hope to be able to solve any problems.

Finance committee  Unfortunately, I was with the Board of Management over the past two days. I therefore did not see the minutes of yesterday's meeting, but I hope it was positive.

Finance committee  I would venture to say this is a question we should ask the Government of Quebec.

Finance committee  The reference might be whether there should be any changes in legislation to improve the situation. Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I'm involved with the unions every week. We just went through a meeting with UTE this week. We spent half a day. We met with the whole executive. It's the same for PIPS.

Finance committee  The impact on business is phenomenal. In fact, there is virtually unanimous support in Ontario business for this project to proceed. Both governments have agreed; they've signed the agreement and have announced it. The teams are in place, of about 60 people each, and are now working on the various aspects of it.

Finance committee  I can't answer the member with specifics on this particular credit. The only thing I want to mention to the committee is that we're working very hard now to provide some indicators to the committee in the next reports we will table to Parliament on how much it costs to administer the flow of money, because it is very important.

Finance committee  Not really. It would be $100 of a flow of money in the agency, either through a benefit or through a tax collection. What this will allow the committee to do is to compare from year to year whether it is costing us more or less to administer the same amount of dollars.

Finance committee  We can provide some data on certain credits or certain payments that we do for certain programs.

Finance committee  I'll have to ask my colleagues. I do not have those examples here, but we can give some breakdown on our costs. We cost everything, but there are things that are not easy to pull out.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, with your permission, our chief financial officer just joined us and he might have something to say on that. Mr. Ralston.

Finance committee  And one auditor.

Finance committee  I'm not sure we have any information yet.

Finance committee  This is one of the largest projects we have with a provincial client now. There will be a single return for corporate taxes in Ontario in 2009. The project is a very complex one. We're in the process of implementing it with Ontario right now. Starting as early as next year, we'll combine the audits and then gradually implement the project.

Finance committee  January.