Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a proposal to make which, I think, will solve our problem. Instead of talking about expenses, I'd like us to talk about documents about changes that occurred along the way. If a product that was ordered is late, it's because changes were requested. We would therefore have to see the list of documents concerning changes requested to the design or structure of the aircraft, for example. Delays may well have resulted from the fact that Canada, unlike other countries, asked for 30 specific modifications.
That would not require the production of thousands of documents. The project office already has these in hand. What we want to know is what's happening and why are there delays. If the delays are caused by changes that were requested, we'd like to know what these changes were. As my colleague Mr. McCAuley mentioned, the company has already been producing this aircraft for other countries, and they're not experiencing these problems; that's the reason we want to know why it's happening for Canada.
We would accordingly only ask for documents related to the changes requested to the structure or design of the aircraft, rather than those on expenses. It's true that we're talking about overall expenses, but what we mainly want to know is how did we get there, because we are not moving forward and there's an efficiency problem. That's what we're asking for.