Thank you, Chair.
One of the things that's been difficult for everyone is trying to get a sense of how you operate. Because of the multitude of companies, the multitude of side holdings, and the vast real estate empire, it has certainly drawn a lot of attention through numbered companies and your personal holdings. We're not really sure.
I was really interested, because the other day I saw an article in the National Post. It said that one of the reasons you do this is “a deliberate strategy to operate efficiently and avoid office leasing and rental costs”, and that's the reason to have such a vast real estate empire.
When you signed the deal with the federal government, in the budget that you brought forward, you wrote in $590,000 in rent. Over the course of the 100 days for that period of the cohort in the budget, that would have been about $200,000 a month in rent. That's pretty extraordinary.
Why should we be paying rent to your organization, when you say you have control of the buildings?