I would suggest that there is a constant ebb and flow around the acquisition of property and the divestiture thereof. The degree to which we buy as opposed to leasing depends on a number of factors.
I have taken certain cases to Treasury Board recently where the Minister of Public Works was entering into new leases. However, in some cases those leases were motivated by a department's efforts to consolidate, to divest itself of a number of small, scattered leases and consolidate in one building. In other cases it has been because of programs being created or program growth.
So yes, sir, we are in the course of buying and leasing at various junctures. But typically speaking, and more broadly, I would say that there is at least a soft strategy at play to not add to the size of the federal inventory at this stage, and that's for a number of reasons. It sometimes ties up cash for longer periods of time than is necessary.
It's also, though, a function of the fact that many programs, as you would know, are funded on a temporary basis these days, where funding is available for three years or one year. It may be a task force or something, in which case PW looks very hard, if we're talking about office accommodation, where there may be pockets of space in already existing buildings, at filling in those pockets.