Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. DeMarco, my questions will be about “Report 1: Contaminated Sites in the North”.
Typically this is what is happening when the government sets out to implement a project. Let's say that we're building a building. If we build the first few levels of the building this year and a few more levels next year and a few more the year after, the total amount of money left to complete the project, or the total amount of cost left in the project should be going down after we've done work on the project. However, that's not what's happening with the contaminated sites in the north. The total liability seems to be going up and up every year.
Could you explain to the committee how that's possible?