Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm pleased to hear that Mr. Guimond will be looked after, and I'd appreciate you looking after me as well.
I appreciate you coming today.
I've listened to the explanation to Mr. Brison's questions about trying to assess value and how difficult it is. At the end of the process, there's money here, it goes to state level, then it goes to local level, and perhaps even sort of their regional sense, if there's that sort of piece going on as well. Flowing it is difficult. We don't flow it, and they do, so you have to try to find where it went. It's sort of a “find the pea under the shell” sort of thing, sometimes.
Do you have any sense of how much it was before it even started? I don't just mean the number that gets bandied about: Obama says we'll spend x number of dollars. But when you were thinking about going into this negotiation and were instructed to do so, did you have any sense of how much you were really looking at chasing? So you'd have a number that you thought you were going to chase, because it seems at the end that we're not sure how much we ended up with because it's difficult to extrapolate from all the different places it flows to, to come up and say, “Well, it's $1.50”. It could be $3.50, and then we could add zeros to all of those numbers.
So I'm wondering if there was any thought process going and how much it was worth to chase in the first place.