Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Giroux and officials, for joining us.
The impetus for this study was the Prime Minister's and the minister's claim at the opening that this would break even in five years or less. In fact, the minister has said publicly, many times since April, that actually there was a return on investment and that return on investment would be five years or less. Every banker would actually love that kind of a deal. You're now telling us that it would take 20 years or more just to break even, if fairy dust is all sprinkled around in certain ways.
You made an assumption based on the Trillium report. Do you have any access to how the Trillium report's numbers of the ecosystem...because when I looked at the Trillium report, I can't find the word Volkswagen anywhere in it. Without mention of that specific deal and without access to the numbers that are behind this fairy dust report of Trillium's, how do you come up with the number that it's 20 years to get it back?
There are assumptions here about taxation levels on individuals and stuff that I think are quite generous.