Thank you, Madam Auditor General and Mr. Ricard. I am impressed by what I see in these documents. I went back to 1992. I don't know whether you read the report by Mr. McGrath, the Executive Director of the Real Property Branch of Public Works and Government Services Canada. I will quote you an excerpt. This is what he says on page 37 of the 69-page report:
If you make a comparison with every other organization, in every project where there is an overlap of reviews, there is an escalation in costs and delays. PWGSC explained that the reason for this practice is that it helps government save money in the long term by ensuring that the concept is acceptable.
After having read this and after having heard from you, I thought that someone must be mistaken, and I don't think it is you, since you have told us the exact opposite, namely that the more people there are involved, the longer it takes; and the more you study the study which was studied based on the study of the previous study, the more costs go up. That is my understanding.