Government Operations committee  I have a quick point. The allegation of misinformation was restricted to the Deutsche Bank study of July 24, 2007, specifically page 27. Again, I'd be happy in discussions with the department or with others to simply show them why I think they're wrong.

Government Operations committee  Keep in mind that their estimate is that they would have incurred these costs in any case, and their estimate of the total of that is roughly $105 million on these seven properties. The lessor has agreed to cover roughly $71.7 million of them. So the difference in that is that th

Government Operations committee  I would certainly be willing to do that. I should also indicate that from the first time I tabled this report, a long time ago--it was sunny out--we said we would love to sit down and go over the spreadsheets cell by cell with the people at PWGSC. That was something I was more th

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, the operating costs are in neither set, or if they are they are assumed to be the same. So in some sense, unless you're positive that the operating cost would change depending on who owns it, then there is no change there. They specify what they expect the capita

Government Operations committee  No, I disagree with you. There are other ways of coming up with a value, including the valuation that is being used within the studies themselves.

Government Operations committee  If you think you can get a CMA for nine properties and to convey those to the client and all of that for under $10,000, I welcome you to the business.

Government Operations committee  On the first one, again, I don't want to put myself forward as an expert on how to clean a house or a property, but certainly if you're going to compare estimates for the costs of a service, you want to make sure that you're comparing apples to apples. It strikes me that the diff

Government Operations committee  Possibly.

Government Operations committee  I think if they table the document and we're released, if we get a release from the minister, there's nothing to prevent us from letting them look for errors on our spreadsheets.

Government Operations committee  I'm not quite sure I would be able to identify anything. We were trying to take the numbers as provided in the study and evaluate them.

Government Operations committee  Isolated. You'd just like a list of 20 assumptions?

Government Operations committee  That's easy. Then sure. As long as I don't have to refer to what it was about, I can give you 20 numbers.

Government Operations committee  I'm not understanding your jargon. I'm sorry.

Government Operations committee  I am not familiar with your jargon.

Government Operations committee  I think it's something we can certainly do. I think it's done in our report to PSAC. We did two such reports--or actually three, I guess. As new information became available we would comment on that information, but the original document would give you a sense of the assumptions