Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Maybe I'll ask the question that Ed probably was going to ask next about Nortel. We're like-minded.
I'd like to touch briefly on four different areas in Public Works: Nortel first; then Atomic Energy; then CMHC; and then, if there's time, Natural Resources.
It seems to me that the government is always first in line when the assets of a bankruptcy are distributed. I remember that when John Manley was the minister around here, they delivered dump trucks full of money to Nortel. They got more federal government largesse than probably any corporation in history.
Why do we have to buy that property from them, now that they don't need it any more? Surely there are unpaid debts. The technology partnerships loans alone that they got far exceed the land value, the purchase price here. Did they pay back all of their technology partnerships loans, and Canadian job strategy loans, and all of those loans that weren't loans that went on in corporate welfare over all those years? Didn't they owe us a bunch of money? Why should we have to buy that land from them?