The Treasury Board Secretariat actually plays many roles when it comes to federal office space. As the employer, they do set the tone for in-office presence. That is a key element to understand when you look at how federal office space is being used and how much is needed.
When it comes to the Centre of Expertise for Real Property, that was put in place to look at a horizontal review of all the fixed assets of the government. It issued 119 recommendations, and we did find that it was dissolved in March 2024. We were told that was because of a lack of funding and that now the responsibility rests with the organizations that had received the recommendations to ensure that the recommendations had been implemented. However, we found that only 21 of the 119 had been implemented by the time the centre was dissolved.
I am concerned that some of those recommendations may be forgotten, but it really now rests with all of the departments that received them to act on them.