Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, everyone, for coming this morning and providing us with an opportunity to ask you some questions.
I have two questions for the Auditor General to start with.
It was indicated just this morning in your report...and I think Mr. Baker also commented on the legislative delays that have occurred in getting the system ready for whatever regulations ended up coming. In your report to us this morning, you talked about the costs tripling to about $90 million, and you actually used the words “avoidable delay costs”. Could you respond to me as to whether the legislation piece was part of those avoidable delay costs, and what other avoidable delay costs there were, or what avoidable delays there were?