Madam Chair, I guess I would characterize it as unexpected, but there had been a fair amount of discussion at the time in terms of the extent to which the contract was a fixed-price contract. I think, as Mr. Chartrand confirmed earlier, that was the case. And more to the point, he confirmed that the federal government contribution was capped at $200 million. That was something that was made clear in the original memorandum of understanding in 2005, which was that no matter what, the federal and provincial government contributions would both be capped at $200 million.
On February 26th, 2008. See this statement in context.