Thank you for that, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming before us today.
We've been looking at this deal now of seven pieces of prime urban real estate across the country, as opposed to nine. We look at the numbers it was costing Canadians before and the numbers, based on your request for proposals that went out, that will be accrued afterwards.
For example, the Harry Hays Building started off with the taxpayer paying $5 million a year; that will jump to $20 million a year, but that $20 million does not include the $6.3 million that's allocated in this year's 2007-08 supplementary estimates.
Is that for building costs? Why is the Canadian public paying, on top of what they're already going to be paying in rent, for a building that no longer belongs to them?