Finance committee  Some amounts allocated in the government's budget were not spent, but they were used afterwards to boost available infrastructure funding.

Finance committee  You are correct.

Finance committee  When a department can't use funding allocated by Parliament, that sort of practice is acceptable, although not ideal. Transport Canada changed some of its practices in that regard. It reduced the amount of unused funding owing to the problems tied to the forecasts for a given pe

Finance committee  I'm not sure of the exact percentage, but it was fairly sizeable.

Public Accounts committee  We have a chart, sir. I just want to know which batch.

Public Accounts committee  Sir, actually the LRIPs, for each batch, have a specific price attached to them. There have been cost overruns. In some cases those have been borne by the defence department, and in some cases they've been shared.

Public Accounts committee  Sir, in some cases some of the LRIP batches actually exceed $200 million per aircraft, so we thought it would be unfair simply to compare the early rate production.

Public Accounts committee  Sir, the idea is, for fiscal—

Public Accounts committee  Sir, at this point that would be speculative. I think we can refer you to the fact that they've now done an estimate of the cost difference—their belief in the cost difference—using parametric models to look at the O-and-S cost, operating and support, per flying hour for the F-35

Public Accounts committee  Which LRIP batch are you referring to, sir?

Public Accounts committee  The F-35A, sir. But which LRIP batch are you referring to?

Public Accounts committee  Actually, sir, from LRIP one to five.... First of all, there are two issues here. There are actually published figures and they're contracted. The issue is those are actually a price, not a cost—

Public Accounts committee  The LRIP 5.... Which LRIP batch?

Public Accounts committee  Forgive me. It's just that we're unsure which batch you're referring to, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Sir, there are multiple batches within the LRIPs. Currently we're at—