Okay, so it's getting close to $1.3 million among these three projects that are dead and might be revived.
Some of these questions I would prefer to ask the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, who is the minister responsible for this, and through whom the CIB has their parliamentary accountability. However, he has declined an invitation to appear on this study even though he was invited by motion of this committee, so I'll ask you.
He provides to you a statement of priorities and accountabilities, which is interesting considering that he won't be accountable to this committee on this issue, but he has stated that he believes the Canada Infrastructure Bank should become a centre of expertise.
As Dr. Lewis has pointed out, you've gone from $17 million to $21 million to over $30 million now in staff and bonus costs. You're clearly expanding the size of the CIB's cost to taxpayers in terms of its number of employees, or salaries for those employees.
Do you believe that you are a centre of expertise on infrastructure? If so, why the need—like the government, which has expanded the use of external consultants to $21 billion a year—to use so many outside consultants if you are an infrastructure centre of expertise?