It is hard for us to understand. You are saying that your business cases date back two or three years, analyses that we have asked for on many occasions and which have never been sent to the committee.
First of all, I would appreciate your tabling those with the committee. If you require a motion in order to do so, we will pass one.
Furthermore, a technology strategies manager at Treasury Board Canada said on January 15, 2009, during a meeting with the industry, that he did not know if there would be any real potential savings. He presumed that they would be in the range of 20%, but he did not know because there had not been any tests. You are telling me that the departments must make business cases, but that they have not already done so.
You are moving forward. To date, $1.5 million has been spent on the implement of GENS. In the budget, I see that you are asking for $20 million more to carry on with the implementation of new information technologies. I'm sorry if those are not the correct terms. I'm under the impression that the departments will have no choice, they will have to move forward. It also seems to me that you do not know how many departments will follow you in this initiative and what the result of the business cases will be.
If we provide you with $20 million on top of the $1.5 million, that makes $21.5 million, without knowing what that will result in. Could you explain to us how this came about?