In that regard—and this is what we're trying to find out here—I want to go back to Mr. Wouters.
Given that both the City of Ottawa and Siemens/PCL/Dufferin cite Treasury Board's intervention into the LRT project as grounds for their inability to fulfill their contractual obligations, and given that Siemens, for example, characterized as unlawful Minister Baird's decision to extend the closing date by withholding approval until a newly elected council—which is, again, an unprecedented action—could vote to approve the project, and that it “constitutes a tortuous interference with the plaintiff's economic interests”, has Treasury Board assessed the federal government's exposure should either party file a third-party statement of claim?