Thank you, Madam Chair. It was interesting listening to the Parliamentary Budget Officer at our last committee meeting. We sensed his frustration at not being able to get the information he felt he needed to do his job. His only recourse, in fact, was to rely on committees like ours to get the information for him, to enable him to do the job.
So I'm pleased to hear you have in fact dropped off information for him. And you've referenced the expenditure by the U.S. in terms of having a very good reporting mechanism, but in fact the Parliamentary Budget Officer told us there were a number of countries that had a much more robust quarterly reporting than Canada does. I think when we're talking about the significant expenditure of taxpayers' dollars, it's all about being accountable and transparent in how that money is being spent.
So that's why we're here. That's why we're asking for these answers. I'd like to know if the information you dropped off to the Parliamentary Budget Officer talks about the project, the location, and the amount or the value of the project. Did you as well include the amount of money that has actually been already spent on the projects, not just the value of the project but how much has already been spent?