Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Kristmanson, I still want to cover the issue that to mitigate the risk of insufficient financial resources, there was a delay in maintaining some assets. You knew you had a constrained budget, you knew this was going to affect how you could maintain these assets, and I think you also knew the risks associated with that, namely, that the longer you left them the more they would cost you in the long run.
We have a responsibility in this committee to make sure that the nation's finances are being spent well, and also that we have an adequate number to do the job we're doing. I'm concerned that with the knowledge the NCC had, it still did not make it into the minister's hands.
What were the discussions around that? Given all of that knowledge, why did you feel that the information still didn't warrant making it into that report? Were the risks ever clearly explained, going up the chain?