Thanks, Mr. Chair. Through you to the witnesses, I'll ask this question of whoever chooses to answer it.
I'm concerned about the numbers as they relate to the number of units required.
We're all reading from the same documents and have access to parliamentary budgets and reports prepared by the Auditor General. We're all using the same media accounts. We pull numbers from those documents. I've heard, sitting here in the meeting today, that anywhere between 4,000 and 6,000 units are required. I've heard the number 7,000. Of course, there was reference to the Auditor General's report, where that came from. These numbers are used in public documents and the media, then become “the number”. There's a wide range there. Of course, the analysts are going to present a report to the committee. I want to nail down what that number is and what it represents. This is from a transparency perspective so that, when we prepare our report recommendations, we know with some certainty what that number is.
I ask this through you, Mr. Chair: How do we drill down to get a number that truly represents how many units are required? Is it 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 or 7,000 units?