Thank you.
Thank you for the question, and thank you for your good words. I appreciate them, and my staff appreciates them.
Let's talk about the main estimates adjustments, if I can call them that, and more specifically the $456 million, which you rightfully single out as being a substantial amount of money. It's half a billion dollars.
There are three entries, and I'll just walk through them. They're pretty straightforward, at least from my perspective.
One of them, $73 million, is really reprofiling, and reprofiling as a result of work that could not take place last year...into the new fiscal year, related to the parliamentary precinct.
Frankly, I will tell members, we've made very good progress on the precinct, but we do find surprises. You poke at walls, things happen. You've got to start and take a fresh look. It takes time. We therefore—not the first time—reprofile, every so often, moneys that could not be wisely spent in a given fiscal year. So $73 million of the $456 million is for that.
The other entry is $90 million, for price increases. These are the hard realities--rent, utilities, electricity, things of that nature--which...that increment we get adjustment for systematically.
Otherwise, these increments in price, which are passed on to us...and we have to detail that, in excruciating detail, with Treasury Board and Finance. When they're satisfied that the case passes muster, they give us price adjustment.
The rest--