Mr. Speaker, there has been a problem since World War II and now we hear that a committee has been established. That is just wonderful.
It is very expensive to clean up contaminated sites and the longer it is put off, the more expensive it gets. We had a very good example of this with part of the decontamination of the military base at Longue Pointe, in Montreal.
Can the minister or the Deputy Prime Minister confirm the auditor general's observation that the government's estimate of $2 billion to decontaminate the sites is based on incomplete studies, and that in reality the costs may go much higher, skewing the government's financial report card?