Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses, especially the Parliamentary Budget Officer, for taking the time to meet with us.
This is an issue my team and I are following closely. When your report was published, a number of the concerns we had when we read the data as it became available were confirmed.
In the table you provided, you did indicate that the cost of the program was $13.9 billion and that $3.9 billion of that total has been spent. According to your forecasts in the second table, $2.7 billion will actually have been spent in this fiscal year.
What would you say explains the difference between what the government had announced and the results you have arrived at through your research?