Thank you, Madam Chairman.
The committee clerk contacted us after we provided the documents. And the honourable member is correct, some are in French and some are in English, because that is the language in which they were received. The clerk asked us whether we could translate this and what the costs would be. We contacted Public Works and Government Services and we have an estimate of $230,000 and it would take two to three months to translate 500,000 words. These are the numbers we were given. We transmitted this information to the committee clerk, but we haven't heard back from him as to whether the committee actually would like us to translate this documentation.
We looked at more efficient ways of doing it, such as dividing up the pieces and contracting them all at once, but then we would have to make sure there's consistency in language. So that's what we have done, and we're awaiting direction from the committee. Should the committee ask us to translate it, we would be tendering this contract of a quarter of a million dollars.
Thank you.