Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for being here, Mr. Bard, via video.
I wanted to place on record once more, from January 31, 2007, Bruce Sloan, from the Auditor General's office, who said: “We made inquiries in both the regional office and headquarters for financial analysis, and that is the analysis we had. The $4.6 million we stand by.”
So we have a situation here, Mr. Bard, where not only is there a cost of $4.6 million to taxpayers but there are also two contractors who were outed in this whole process, who weren't treated fairly because they had no consideration after the fact, and they were actually two places ahead of the person who ended up getting the lease at Place Victoria. I'm hoping that you'll see just how important this is to stimulate your memory to go back to this time, because there are very serious allegations.
Mr. Lussier mentioned a couple of names. I'll also add Suzanne Cloutier, who said that you were the one who stopped the whole process, and I'll just read from Mr. Arès' e-mail—