M. Peter MacKay: Monsieur Steinberg, seriez-vous d'accord pour dire que si, en 1996, on avait donné suite à vos recommandations et qu'on avait déployé de sérieux efforts pour régler les problèmes que vous aviez clairement signalés, on aurait pu épargner des centaines de millions de dollars de l'argent des contribuables ?
Mr. Peter MacKay: Mr. Steinberg, would you agree with me that if in 1996 there had been any adherence to your recommendations, and a genuine attempt had been made to follow some of the cleanup of the problems that you had quite clearly pointed out, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money could have been saved in the context of what we are now examining before this committee?