Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for appearing before the committee today. It's much appreciated.
I want to start, if I may, with the government's real property holdings. I know we've discussed this before, but there are still a few outstanding items, and some specifically flow through the estimates.
Later I may get into procurement, but I have a number of concerns with respect to procurement, and they don't exactly fall into estimates, so I don't want to start there.
The appropriation request through Parliament for capital expenditure relating to the government's real property holdings has decreased by some 14.5% for the 2008-09 fiscal year. Could you tell me why? It's a pretty substantive decrease. What's behind it?