Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for listening and for reading the government's submissions because that is very important.
I was not intimately involved in the process, but what I read and what is in the government's documentation is partly what he said, that the almost $4 billion was the settlement, but what he left out was the fact that it took 15 years.
I understand the hon. member is a lawyer. Having some knowledge of some of the costs of litigation, lawyers tend to work, at least in the smaller communities I live in, for about $100 to $150 an hour. I suspect when we get to the levels in the litigation process we are talking about, we are talking about hundreds of dollars an hour. Over 15 years, my guess is this cost a heck of a lot of dollars.