The MAPLE project began in 1996. Construction began in 1998, and it was basically completed in 2000. I'm advised that AECL warned the government of the day in 1996 that this was an extremely highly risky project. If I go back to the Auditor General's report of 1998, this is before construction even began, and I'm reading from the Auditor General's report. She's talking about the MAPLE project--in those days they called it the MMIR. It had “tight timelines and budgets and an unexpected regulatory event”, and again, she doesn't get into the specifics, but the flags were back there in the very beginning.
You can go to the Auditor General's reports. They've been in all of them, in fact, right from 1997.