That is certainly my experience. I can tell you that when I was involved at Ontario Realty Corp., whenever we went to place a ministry, it was clear they didn't want to go into a public building, because a building that was managed by Oxford or Cadillac Fairview or someone....
To give you an example, a general rule of thumb is that a government should budget annually somewhere between 2% to 3% of the capital costs of an asset for annual reinvestment. As you well know, it can only be done in government by annual appropriation. Not to be critical, but when it comes to funding health care, defence, and other things, it's hard to come up with that. The City of Montreal has in fact now instituted that rule, but there are very few governments that do that.
I come back to your question. My own impression and first-hand experience is that our buildings...and it was quite severe. We had one situation where there was severe mould. We had a lot of buildings with severe mould, which is simply caused by water coming in. I could also indicate that this is true of schools. It's not only federal buildings; it's schools, it's local government buildings.