Thank you for your question.
As I said from the outset, I was not sure that Place Bonaventure was the best choice, but you are right, it was the cheapest one. That's a significant difference. The deputy minister of the day, Mr. Gladu, had said that it was a concrete building and that trains ran underneath it, whereas the Tour de la Bourse, at Place Victoria, had a glass facade. I simply asked people to look into the matter to see whether it was possible to save a million dollars while respecting the rules.
You are making me out to be much more powerful than I actually was, Mr. Poilievre, if you believe that the simple fact of my writing a letter asking to look into the situation amounted to interference and lead to the reversal of the original decision. That was up to the Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada, and the minister of the day asked officials to look into the matter. At the time, he was told that additional space would be needed for federal public servants.
So, if you take officials—