Mr. Chair, I would just remind committee members that in the process of doing our audits and preparing our reports, we ask the departments to validate the facts. In this case, except for the disagreement on the procurement process, all departments have agreed with the facts as outlined in this report.
We have documents that indicate that senior officials were told this was an off-the-shelf purchase, using off-the-shelf technologies, and that it was low to medium risk. We have seen that the costs, in particular of the Chinook, were 70% more than what was originally estimated. There are significant delays, and the complexity, we believe, was much higher than what was originally estimated. As to why that was done, we don't get into motivations or rationale. People obviously thought it was a much easier process than it turned out to be.