Thank you, Chair.
Certainly, of course, the Conservatives supported the Trans Mountain expansion but also believed that it should be completely built, owned, operated and paid for by the private sector...if only the government had provided the legal and political certainty to allow that proponent to go ahead and build that project after they had also approved it.
This is for either the Department of Finance or for Elizabeth from the Canada Development Investment Corporation, whichever is appropriate—or maybe both.
I'm going to quickly ask if you can provide, as written submissions to this committee, the figures for the purchase cost of TMX from Kinder Morgan, just so it's on the record; the projected cost of TMX by the private sector proponent when it was originally proposed; the current projected cost of construction of the Trans Mountain expansion; what the projected completion date was when it was first announced by its private sector proponent; and what the projected completion date now is. Also, if there is any information that can be provided in written form about the status of the consideration of new ownership, I think we'd all appreciate that too.
Now I will pass my questions over to my colleague Jeremy.