Thank you very much for the question. It gives me the opportunity to state that I have confirmed that the number of cases we have sent to the RCMP is seven. That number stands.
I think there was a question around how much money is owed or how much we anticipate on the fraud. I said $4.5 million. That is only partially accurate, as we're still continuing to assess those that were referred in November. That number will likely go up.
On the $4.5 million, we anticipate recovering $2.1 million or $2.2 million before year-end.
To the question about why it's taking us so long, we just started, in the last few months, with a new authority that Treasury Board gave us to actually act as the collection agent on behalf of the Government of Canada. We didn't have that before.
The next piece, as I've indicated at previous committee hearings.... It's at the consultant level. Sometimes the suppliers themselves are unaware that the consultant is working with a different firm and that there's defrauding going on. What we have done now is accelerate—