I would suggest that you read all the documents, that you read the minister's presentation before the committee before you declare what the minister's intent was. I think that would be more than a little bit fair.
When I look at most public policy issues, I often take them and turn them around and ask what the inverse would be. Do you know what I'm saying? So if you're saying it's bad to lease government buildings, that we should own then, then let's look at it the opposite way. The government currently leases buildings all across this country. I'm thinking about my district, where the Department of Human Resources leases a large building because it doesn't occupy the entire building and the job of the federal government isn't to be a landlord and to assume that responsibility and risk for taxpayers.
Of all the buildings that the government currently leases, is it your position then that we should purchase those rather than lease them?