I want to go back to Human Resources and Skills Development. I'd like you to provide the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates with written answers to the following questions. What criteria do you use to grant student loans? What criteria do you use to determine whether student loan-related debt is not recoverable? Do you assess the risks when you lend to students? If so, how do you do that? In view of the fact that the value of student loans is $2,419, on what basis do you say that those $2,500 loans are unrecoverable? Since students pay low interest rates, have you considered any other solutions?
And since I don't have much time left, I would like to go back to Mr. Lakroni.
A few years ago, Public Works and Government Services Canada sold some beautiful federal government buildings to Larco Investments. The sale was criticized because some of those buildings could have been used by National Defence.
Now that you've bought the Carling Campus from Nortel, another private business, I would like to know whether you've developed a strategic plan at Public Works and Government Services Canada for the federal departments to occupy and use those premises. If you have one, can we see in that strategic plan why you are selling, why you are buying and what premises you intend to occupy?
Could you submit those answers here, to the committee? That would spare us having to ask too many questions about the reasons for the sale of good premises when we could have occupied them. Now they're charging a few million dollars to use other premises.
For my final question, you sell—