Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Perhaps I could just follow up on my previous line of questioning, for Mr. Ross this time.
The gross money that has lapsed, if you want to use that term, is $1.2 billion in 2009-10. I understand that it's significantly more this coming year. Much of that is from procurement, I understand.
It seems that the department consistently looks on the rosy side as to the timing of when various procurements will happen. So I guess my question is.... If you took a more realistic view of when the equipment would arrive, then effectively you could reduce the department's budget by a billion dollars and nothing material would change at all.
You probably don't like that suggestion, but I believe it's true. But you would have to be assuming that the billion-dollar lapse would be continuous at that level in future years, which may not be the case.