I have to clarify a few things. It was a logic model that was developed by an interdepartmental working group of which the Treasury Board Secretariat was one member. So for our part in that, yes, we accept all responsibility.
It was a predictive model. When predictive models are examined after the fact, many of them don't withstand the test very well. This one was off by several orders of magnitude. We acknowledge that.
We do, however, stand by the point that the number of property management services actually purchased was different from the ones that would have been funneled through Royal LePage itself. If we use, for example, the people who opted for the personalized fund approach that the member, Mr. Fitzpatrick, just referred to, if we use that as a proxy for that number, it would be some ten- or twenty-fold higher. I think the numbers that we're looking at right now are about 440, or a number in that magnitude, versus 32.
We did our best. We had certain information that was available at the time. I can't speak for what was given to the auditors at the time. Unfortunately, I wasn't part of it. I can tell you that it hasn't been well documented. We acknowledge responsibility for that as well, and we are taking steps to ensure that sort of thing doesn't happen again.