With the way the system is set up to work, Mr. Chair, the individual being relocated options the incentive at origin. For someone moving from Ottawa to P.E.I., for example, they option the incentive not to sell their house in Ottawa when they go to P.E.I. and buy a house. As it is currently for any public servant, we do not pay purchase costs outside of legal, so it's a very minimal amount.
If that person, in a subsequent transfer, is leaving, that person could also retain the P.E.I. house. The way the incentive works is that for the rest of that person's public service lifetime, the Government of Canada will never incur any expenses to dispose of the house that the incentive was optioned on.