Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has come directly to the point with his supplementary question.
There is no question that if we continue the process that some are on at this point, as the hon. member says, it could cost Canadian taxpayers $500 million without a nail being driven or an inch of asphalt being laid.
The point is the Government of Canada has made known its position. We are prepared to pay up to $30 million for reasonable out of pocket expenses to compensate those people who were involved in the process, many of them third party not directly involved in the process that led to the granting of that final contract.
The difficulty with the Reform Party is as usual it wants its cake and wants to eat it too. That is not the way it works in the real world.