Mr. Laforest, I'm going to repeat myself. First of all, I found out about it at that time. I could not have acted earlier: I had just taken up my duties as minister. Secondly, I asked for a review. Remember what I said at the outset. When the deputy minister informed me that there had been a tendering process and that the price for Place Bonaventure was the lowest, I said that was fine, that we would move. I asked him where we were going and where Place Bonaventure was, and he told me that it was across the street. I therefore said we would move. That was the reaction I had, Mr. Laforest.
Afterwards, our deputy minister told us about the drawbacks, the costs, and it was at that point that I asked him if I was telling me that perhaps something could be done. I said I wanted to make sure that the department was working well, that we were not wasting money, given the million-dollar cost of the move, and I asked that there be a verification. That is how I came to intervene, Mr. Laforest.
I have said this from the beginning: I accepted the tendering process, I agreed with the move, and it was following what my deputy minister said to me, in the presence of my chief of staff, that I decided to take transparent action, in writing.