Yes.
The acceptable risk was going to CAC when his procurement officials said they were too busy—I don't know the other statement that was made—to continue providing contracting services to us and to go to Public Works, who said they couldn't meet the timeframes. The acceptable risk was we had a contract with Morneau Sobeco, which was to start in March 2003, which would immediately have payments start to go to Morneau Sobeco. If we did not have the work in place, if we did not have the clean-ups of data and whatever in place, we would have had to pay Morneau Sobeco in the millions of dollars for not doing any work. The acceptable risk Mr. Gauvin identified was the additional cost—and I keep hearing it was 15%.
The way it was described to me—and I could be wrong—was that on a $100 contract, you would charge $107 if I went through Mr. Gauvin's shop, $100 plus GST. If I went through Consulting and Audit Canada on a $100 contract, I would be charged $115. That's an 8% difference. I could be wrong, but that's how it was explained to me, sir. That was the acceptable risk that I understood.