Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. I believe Dan Ross would have the nature of the premium we would pay through a foreign military sales purchase.

Public Accounts committee  I believe that's correct.

Public Accounts committee  Defining as operating costs—yes, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chairman, I may actually ask Dan Ross to speak again to some of the correspondence recently and over time with the PBO. What we asked for clarification on, about two weeks ago, was for the schedule of operating costs that we used to build our ope

Public Accounts committee  To the best of my knowledge, we fully responded to the PBO's request, Mr. Chairman. I have the timelines of all the correspondence back and forth, starting in November 17, 2010, and ending with his report on March 10, 2011. I don't believe that he raised issues with us on the sub

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. If I may, on the specific question, which I believe is related to the report on plans and priorities from last year, on April 13 of this year my office was informed that there was an error in the supplementary tables on major capital projects in the

Public Accounts committee  I think Mr. Ross will answer that question, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, ADM Materiel Dan Ross actually has the technical details on that—

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I would ask Dan Ross, ADM Materiel, to speak to that question, as he has been intimately involved in the MOU.

Public Accounts committee  Just to clarify, is that in terms of actually acquiring, being in part of the development process, and then leading ultimately to the acquisition?

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps Dan Ross could answer that question.

Public Accounts committee  Dan, you must have the convergence of the cost curves over the various SAR reports.

Public Accounts committee  I actually didn't do the math, Mr. Chairman. I said $75 million. Now it's around $85 million. If that's 13%, that's fine. That is manageable within the context, if you go back to exhibit 2.6, Mr. Chairman, of the allowance for contingency and inflation.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for that opportunity. I was going to say that I don't think the government was trying to put any other words in anybody's mouth. We worked off the left-hand column. The right-hand column was how we responded to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, in the ex

Public Accounts committee  That's a very interesting question, because as far as we could tell, the Parliamentary Budget Officer based his $148 million per aircraft estimate on the actual weight of the aircraft. I would turn either to the ADM Materiel or perhaps to the CFO on the methodological question o