I'll come back to Mr. Elcock in the second hour on that question.
Minister, let me go to the issue of cost. You said in the House that “we...wait for the bills to come in before we determine what the costs are”.
It's now been four months--four months--and we don't know the details of all this spending. We know about $200 million; we had to pry it out with an order paper question. We know about glow sticks and in-suite snacks and millions and millions of dollars on a wide array of things that seemed dubious, including lake creation and lake elimination. But what we don't have now, even four months later, are those bills.
I'm sorry, I don't accept this rationale you're giving me--unless you're telling me that you hand out blank cheques. How could you not know what the bills are? I mean, if you're telling me that you wait for contractors to come and tell you what reasonable costs are four months after the fact, how long do you wait, Minister, before you get the details on how much this thing cost? Why is it now four months and we still don't have about $1 billion in specific details?