I think it's important for the committee to be reminded that Mr. Sauvé was actually the low bidder on this contract. I can see that there would be a conspiracy theory, and it would be a believable conspiracy theory if somebody had given the highest bid, wasn't able to fulfill the contract, and still got the contract. But Mr. Sauvé's company actually came forward with the lowest bid.
Even his competitors.... I have quotes from the National Post from two weeks ago that have the competitors, EllisDon, saying that while this is an unfortunate incident, they don't believe any wrongdoing happened in terms of giving the contract. They believe that Mr. Sauvé underbid the contract and as a result of that is now paying the price in not being able to complete the project. But even the competitors are saying that no inappropriate intervention has been undertaken by anybody. I think it's important for our committee to end the fishing expedition that we've been on.
Obviously your testimony is very interesting to us at a political level. Today we found out that the Liberal Party has a “happy meal” program like at McDonald's; you get a trinket at the end of buying the meal. But what we find here is that they're actually.... When I go to McDonald's, I buy the happy meal for my child because there's a promise of a toy. They love that happy meal. It seems as if the Liberal Party is using the meal to entice you to become a Liberal, so they have the reverse type of organization happening. But I think it's interesting to learn that the Liberals do have the Liberal happy meal.
But really, that is beside the point. That isn't what we've come here to discuss today. It's very interesting, but that is about the extent to which we've learned new information today.
Thanks so much.