No, let me be clear, and maybe this will help. If I hire somebody to do a job, they tell me how much that job is going to be. Before I enter into a contract I know its cost. But you don't say, “Do the work and come back with whatever the reasonable costs are, and we'll fill in the blank cheque later on.”
So I'm saying to you that when you engaged all those different contracts you knew what the costs were supposed to be, and you entered into some assurance that the costs would be lower to a certain value, with a contingency. You could pay those later if you liked, but why on earth could you not submit today--or four months ago when the excuse of security disappeared--the estimate of those costs? Surely you've built in some kind of contingency. Surely you got some kind of assurance of what those costs would be and could provide them.
The notion that you just don't know because you have to wait for those bills to come in to find out what the dollar figure is--to be frank, if that's how you do business, no wonder you have the biggest deficit in Canadian history.