I think the issue is that the change in the market value of those buildings from 1983 to today has been astronomical. It's not just with the rise of inflation; it's just the rise of real estate. We haven't seen any phenomenal plunge of real estate prices in memory, so here we are anticipating that 25 years down the road the civil servants who utilize those buildings will be looking at properties that are probably amortized many, many times over what they are now.
The issue is that the numbers we get from the government are all based on this principle that it all goes to zero at year 25, as if we're not going to have thousands of civil servants needing to use those buildings. How are we going to continue to maintain buildings that we're paying for, to access, because they belong to us? That's my first question.
Second, we've already seen issues of owners taking over buildings that were public, and then the issues of lawsuits that have taken place over buildings and the difficulty the federal government has had in getting landlords to actually maintain the upkeep on these buildings. What assurances would you be seeking to make sure the taxpayer isn't going to be stiffed at the end of this to pay for the upkeep of buildings we no longer own?