The real achievement here is managing to run up a bill of 1B CAD while still failing to deliver. I mean, I can think of a few projects that probably cost severa

The real achievement here is managing to run up a bill of 1B CAD while still failing to deliver. I mean, I can think of a few projects that probably cost several million/yr but 100x? Astonishing. There's an anecdote floating around about the consultant who heard of a billion-dollar government IT project who promptly offered to do it for 20 million. When asked how, they replied that they would sit on a beach for 5 years then pick up the phone and say, "We failed". Their contact got back in touch 5 years later and said, "I wish we'd given it to you".