I have some curiosity about the cost overrun notion. I'm finding this a little perplexing. It was raised earlier about Lepreau specifically, but it concerns some of the liabilities that AECL holds. Your testimony earlier today said that liability would be passed on to the eventual owners of AECL.
What's confusing is that while I appreciate that the Canadian taxpayers will no longer be on the hook for these very expensive bills, I don't know how an offer to an outside buyer to pick up a million-dollar-a-day tab that's going on in New Brunswick, and other things that AECL seems to have on the books, would possibly and successfully be included in a sale.
My last question, just in case I don't get it in, is this. I have an order paper question here, signed by you. We had asked some questions about the bonuses that were included....
I'll read it exactly:
(c) what amount went to executive compensations, including performance bonuses, and which executives received such compensation....
The response we got back, signed by you, was that you wouldn't tell us, that you were withholding that. I find it confusing that, concerning an arm's-length crown corporation that has been going through a serious number of problems, when we ask a question about performance bonuses—which I hope aren't being given out—the answer is that you are not going to bother to tell the taxpayer what we're paying for their bonuses.