Mr. Chair, in paragraph 5.46 we make reference to the $4 billion that had been set aside in an escrow account; $3 billion of that money was to be used for the pension funds within GM Canada and $1 billion was to have been paid by GM Canada. Once that $1 billion had been paid by GM Canada, $3 billion of the $4 billion was made available to GM for its pension liabilities. The remaining $1 billion was released to GM head office, the U.S. parent company.
We raise a point here that I think we've raised a couple of times in this particular chapter, that we didn't know exactly how that money was going to be used. It goes back to a point I think we made earlier in the chapter about the need for an overarching plan, a restructuring plan that would have helped us understand how that $1 billion was going to be used by the parent company, when we went in to take a look at how this was being managed.
We have no doubt it went to the parent company, that it was used by the parent company. We just aren't sure about exactly what use was made of it by the parent company and how that helped the long-term viability of the Canadian subsidiaries, for instance. We needed some more information related to those types of details.