Thank you, Madam Chair.
I don't share the optimism you've just talked about with respect to CARM. I don't know if you've seen the submissions that have come to the committee from stakeholders that are going to be using CARM, but every single stakeholder that has submitted something has said the system is not ready, that it won't work and that it will have disastrous effects on importers in this country. Of course, that means the Canadian economy. We're going to delve into that in a minute.
I would say that after arrive scam, very few Canadians have any confidence in this government delivering an IT project on time. From my quick look at this—and we're going to get some details—this is another arrive scam brought to you by the Liberal government.
When we look at cost, it is very hard to determine what the cost of this program actually is, which is also what happened with arrive scam. I see an original cost estimate of $30 million, and now, from what I can piece together, it is $528 million. We've gone from $30 million to over half a billion dollars in cost.
My first question is, what was the original cost estimate? Exactly how much has CARM cost Canadian taxpayers to date?