Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm supportive of Dr. Lewis's motion. I think the committee should adopt it as a study to see what happened in this case.
It might have been well intentioned. The project, had it been completed, may have served Canadians well, but the fact is that in this case it was not completed, so it did not improve taxpayer value, as Mr. Badawey said. It didn't save dollars. It actually resulted in an expenditure of nearly a million dollars on consultants on a project that has not gone forward. A million dollars of taxpayer money was spent on a project that has been suspended or cancelled.
That is what we need to investigate. How did that happen? How do we make sure that it doesn't happen again?
I think we should vote to approve Dr. Lewis's motion, so that this can be a future study for this committee.