Madam Chair, we are providing a real estate service, which really involves long-term considerations to determine best value. It's not an annual consideration. From our point of view, a long-term funding envelope is by far the better solution. As well, when we look at the anomalies of annual funding, it causes a great deal of difficulty to try to maintain the portfolio as it should be and also to realize the theoretical business cases that we put forward, so our point of view is that we are certainly in favour of accrual appropriation and accrual accounting.
On the other hand--and we've been working with our colleagues in Treasury Board Secretariat--we do realize that the government's financial accounting and funding mechanisms and so on are very complex. We're mindful of the fact that in one case it might be a good thing, but it might introduce other complexities. I believe the secretariat of the board is examining this very issue.