Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to continue on about the costs, because I know, Mr. Ralston, when you were before us the last time, we talked about how doing this internal audit has a certain cost established to it in upgrading--I believe this is the term we used--the “systems”, which I said were probably the computer systems.
I understand, of course, that there's a cost to the AG's department in the sense that if they do an audit, they have to pay for it--there's a cost to them in human resource and in all of the other material--and that's a cost that correctly should be borne by that particular area as it looks at whatever, in this case, let's assume, in the department. But for me--we didn't quite explore this far enough, I thought, last time--there's a separation in those costs. The number of $300 million was put out there, and then a comment was made at the end, but of course, with time being limited, we really didn't break out....
Now, maybe you can't do it. Maybe, as Madame Faille has said, we need to get this in writing.
It's costing you a certain amount of that $300 million regardless of whether the AG does anything at all, including, as you correctly pointed out, they could simply.... If we asked them to go do a department, they could go do it--end of story.
Can you break that out for us now, or do you need the time to actually do that? For instance, the $300 million is internally going to be $150 million to you and $150 million if the AG were to come in; or $200 million and $100 million; or $250 million and $50 million; or whatever percentage those costs may be.
I don't know whether you can answer right away or whether you need the time to break it out.