Well, let me answer generally first.
The Monday after that article came out, I talked to the Auditor General about some of the issues raised in the article. I have since talked to the department. Perhaps this will give some assurance; this is a major project that is also regularly reviewed by Treasury Board. The project, in the end, will cost $243 million. I point out part of that increase in expenditure is caused by the fact that it is now being asked to do more than when it was conceived. Second, much of the extra cost will be absorbed within CIC. Money will be reallocated within the department to ensure we're not constantly going back.
The project is now on track, it's on schedule, and it's a topic of pretty constant conversation within the department, and I ask about it pretty regularly, but we will make sure to provide you with a breakdown, to the degree we can, to give you some assurance that things are moving along as they should.
I do believe this is a very good initiative. Some of these legacy systems we are working off now are 30 years old, and this will really give us the ability to work directly with CBSA. If I can say it this way, we have "ad hocked" year after year after year to connect the two systems; now they will talk directly, and that will benefit everyone.