Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The lease on the facility in Vegreville is set to expire on February 28, 2019. As part of the lease renewal process, the department identified the business requirements going forward to Public Services and Procurement Canada, which included the feasibility of recruiting and retaining staff, accommodation of increases in immigration levels and reducing processing times, a workforce with bilingual capacity to process workloads from across the global departmental network, access to post-secondary educational institutions for recruitment of staff—