Mr. Speaker, clearly the decision as to what is more expensive and what is less expensive can only really be found out in the bid.
However, to answer the parliamentary secretary's second question, it is the process that we are questioning. The same kind of process was not followed here, which does provide the level of rigour that we have been told exists within the Department of National Defence, the same kind of board challenges that we were told was an important part of procurement.
The Auditor General criticized the Department of National Defence for its failure to use those efforts in another project and unfortunately the same rigour is not being applied here. Therefore, this is a process problem and it is a question that can only be resolved by an open competition.