This business of moving--when you move, you change everything, from your stationery to your office equipment. You have to do all this, and that's a big part of the cost that somebody has to bear. When we look at the Auditor General's report, we see $2 million or $4 million, but when we look at the the overall good and the overall problem, have they all been costed in when we're listening to this today?
For example, with advertising, you have to tell all your clients that you've moved from here to there. There's a cost there. A lot of offices have to be rearranged, and there's a cost of hiring moving companies to move everything from one place to another. There's downtime for the employees.
When you think of the long-term costs of this lease, did we lose that much in the short run, in the long term? Are you comfortable with the fact that we lost somewhere between $2 million and $4 million--or really, maybe we gained? Maybe Gary can tell us. Maybe we gained money, because it's a lease for eight or ten years. Did the Government of Canada really lose the money that the Auditor General or somebody in her department says it did? Do you think that's a fair assessment of the overall benefits or losses to the Government of Canada?