I am pleased to meet you.
We see that the trend is to increasingly allocate additional funding through supplementary budgets. I would like to talk to you about the AECL. We see that, for 2009-2010, $108 million was set aside. There is a supplementary budget of $457 million for 2010-2011. Some $102 million has been set aside for operating expenses and 300 million additional dollars to pay down a commercial loss. This commercial loss leads me to ask some serious questions, particularly with regard to the privatization or sale of AECL.
Ultimately, how much will investments in AECL have cost Canadian and Quebec taxpayers in its lifetime? Based on my calculations, it would be approximately $8 billion. We wonder how much it is worth. Will we have a return on our investment? You are setting aside $300 million to pay down a commercial loss. Is it because you anticipate a loss of that magnitude? Will it be higher?