Thank you, Ms. O'Brien.
I would like to continue on the issue of how to best ensure that employees of the House of Parliament—particularly those who work in the restaurant, but there are other areas where they also see the cyclical nature of their employment—are provided with as much employment as possible within the House.
With regards to the restaurant itself, you've raised a couple of issues that would need to be addressed, were the service or the operations of the restaurant to exist outside of the weeks when the Parliament is in session. I wonder what are some of the options being looked at in addition to doing maybe a pilot project to see, if it was kept open during the short adjournments, whether it would be able to operate and not be in a deficit position; whether or not there's the possibility of bringing in some experts to actually look at what would be the value of having the restaurant open in terms of it becoming a marque of commerce. You actually do advertising. Right now, nobody knows anything about the restaurant; it's by word of mouth, etc. The average person who lives in Canada, even if they're coming to Ottawa to visit the Gatineau Hills or to visit family or friends, would not know that there's a parliamentary restaurant and that it is accessible right now for very limited....
So would it be reasonable to look at the possibility of actually developing a plan where it would be branded, where it would become an attraction whereby people who do come to Ottawa would have that on their agenda in the same way as they might have Domus or some other restaurant, and say, “That's a restaurant I have to go to; everybody says that's the restaurant”, etc. I'm suggesting that may be one of the options looked at, but you would probably need to bring in some experts, both in branding and in restoration, to determine whether or not it's feasible. If it is, you will have to invest money, which means you're going to have to come back and ask for money to put it into place.