Mr. Chair, in exhibit 6.6, what you see set out here is the division of costs related to the Chinook helicopter, divided into parts. The first part relates to the capital costs related to the helicopter. You can see that in terms of the capital costs for the acquisition of the helicopter, between the preliminary project approval in June 2006 and the effective project approval in 2009, there was an increase from $2 billion to approximately $2.3 billion.
Now there's more to delivering a Chinook helicopter than the acquisition of the piece of kit. There are also, of course, contracted in-service support, personnel and other operating costs. So when we speak to the issue of detailed life-cycle planning and how it was begun late, what we are referring to is the cost of delivering the full capability. So when you look further down, you will see that at the preliminary project approval stage in June 2006, no costs were included for contracted in-service support, National Defence personnel, or National Defence operating costs.
When you look again at the effective project approval stage, you will see that contracted in-service support was included, but as of the effective date, there were no costs for personnel and no costs for operating. So when we add this up, of course, it goes from being $2 billion to $4.8 billion.