Thank you. Understood.
I do understand the inability to have a detailed budget at this preliminary stage, but I think Canadians would be forgiven if they took little comfort from this.
I bring to the committee's attention the example of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Parliamentarians were assured when the government, after it had chased out private capital to build this project, purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline and created a Crown corporation structure to build it. The cost overrun on that project was, I guess, somewhere between 500% and 1,000%, depending on whether you want to count Kinder Morgan's initial budget or the first budget that was given to Parliament.
Canadians need some real assurance that $60 billion won't turn into $300 billion. How quickly could you give a real budget that's realistic, could be adhered to and could be successfully reported back to Parliament and the public accounts one day?