Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'd like to start off with the study we're doing right now on the possible sale of government buildings, because it concerns real property. We had a witness here, Professor James McKellar, who said that his experience seemed to indicate that governments are very poor managers of buildings.
At the same time, I'm not sure that we've had very clear, comparable facts about the private sector. Would you have that kind of information? For instance, if you take the nine buildings the government is planning to sell and you take nine private sector buildings of comparable age, would the private sector buildings be in as bad shape as the government buildings, or worse, or better? We don't have that kind of information. Can you provide that to us?