Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to have you here this morning. I'm going to try to stick to Mr. Hawkes' introduction.
Mr. Hawkes, I see you focus on the real property issue in your preamble. My impression is that this is what takes up the most funding in these supplementary estimates.
Mr. McBain, you said earlier that more than 2,000 leases were expiring and that you needed additional funding. However, I thought that, when the federal government leased a property, it established special agreements on the amount of rent it had to pay. I thought it could get special privileges or special favours since, at the federal level, the agreements are for the very long term.