Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you for the question.
I would just reiterate that we do have constant communication. And it's important to note that around that time, in the summer of 2006, we started a committee. It's attended by Industry Canada, Public Works, the Privy Council Office, the Departments of Finance and Defence, and us. It's called the major crown project integrated oversight committee. On a monthly basis we have constant dialogue in a very transparent fashion with respect to all of these projects. We don't often get into these detailed technical risks that can happen, and, quite frankly, there are probably dozens of technical risks. Really we're trying to ensure the department has the capacity to manage those risks appropriately. That's really where we're focusing now.
There was no real scope change to the project, but there were technical risks to be managed, and we were confident that the department would be able to manage those risks.