Unless we are about to divest ourselves of crown lands, Mr. Chair, we do not put a value on them. The closest we have come is when we have to assess all of the liabilities. We have done, for example, a full assessment of the liabilities for contaminated lands or buildings. We did undertake an initiative a few years back, exactly as you suggest, to do a valuation of all of the assets held by the Government of Canada. We looked at the cost benefit of doing that, and we found that it was going to take us probably about 30 years to do it, and the cost of doing it would far outweigh the benefit because, if something happens to the physical assets, and we need them, we replace them. It's just virtually impossible to put a dollar value on them.
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