Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to clear up a few things to avoid any confusion.
First of all, we would not go to a member's office to see the document, but to the clerk's office. This kind of thing happens fairly often.
Secondly, the appraisal report that Ms. Bouchard alluded to today is the 97-page document that we received this week, along with a two-page letter from GAC. The appraisal report concerns the West 57th Street residence, the new residence. The current request concerns the appraisal report for the former residence, which is on the market now.
Yes, we work with confidential information quite often. Has confidential information ever been leaked to the media? Let's just say, there have been a few surprises in the past. To be polite, I'll leave it at that. I manage two inboxes, my personal inbox and my MP inbox. Nobody touches my email. My employees are well aware that I consider both to be my personal email boxes. I need to know the things that people want to tell me. I need to understand why people are in a good mood or a bad mood and exactly what they want from a given bill. That's why I check both my inboxes. That way, there's no chance that one of my employees, who's simply trying to help me manage my inboxes, will come across a confidential document.
However, this is how I personally like to manage my emails. It doesn't mean that everyone operates that way. I don't know how other people do it. I'm not saying that my colleagues aren't trustworthy, far from it. I know how I operate, and no one touches my inboxes but me. I might seem nice and easygoing on the outside, most of the time, but I'm very strict about managing access to my inboxes. However, it's not necessarily the same for everyone.
That's where my concern over potential leaks is coming from. I'm concerned that this document, for a variety of reasons, might accidentally fall into the hands of someone who shouldn't have seen it and who might not know that it's confidential. I'm not saying that specific people are going to cause leaks. We're not there yet. I just want to make sure that our approach is clear and consistent with our usual way of doing things, in other words, that we read the document in the clerk's office. I know that it's done that way because I've done it before for certain contracts. It's also a middle ground.
The last thing I want is to insult anyone. I'm not in the habit of doing so, and I have no intention of starting now, or tomorrow, for that matter. Like any owner selling his or her home, condo or land, I also want to make sure that we get a good price for assets that we put up for sale. It's that simple.
I hope these clarifications are sufficient and acceptable.
Thank you.