Thank you, and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.
I have two very different questions. The first one has to do with the Auditor General's report, and as disturbing as cost overruns are—unless I understand what her report says incorrectly—I think what she is saying is that in terms of the Chinook, there is a certain basic model of the Chinook, a certain cost of that basic model, and this was the cost that was made known publicly and also to Parliament. The report says that at the same time it was also known that this is not what we were going to be purchasing. We were going to be wanting upgrades to the Chinook, not just the basic model, and Defence officials knew that the cost of those upgrades was going to be increased, so the cost was going to be that much more, even though the cost that was made known to the public was less.
How could that be? Why should we feel more comfortable this time?