Well, that's partly true.
It is always up to the client to determine the operational requirements. Public Works does not determine the operational requirements to meet the client's needs. Public Works then assesses what space would be appropriate to meet those needs. In this case, although it was very late in the day—and I agree this was highly unusual—the client had indicated that their operational requirements were different from what they had been at the outset of the tender process.
When the options were reviewed, had we not been able to fill that space in Place Bonaventure with other tenants—we believed at the time that we would be able to backfill that space with other tenants—we would have required them to move, because the loss to the crown, as foreseen based upon the assumptions available to us at that time, would have been so significant that it would not have been in the public interest to leave them at Place Victoria. That's what the minister would have told his colleague, the minister responsible for economic development in Quebec. But as things turned out, our analysis led us to believe that we could meet the client's operational requirements, allow them to stay in Place Victoria if they were willing to make certain concessions on the fit-up, and at the same time fill the space that we had leased in Place Bonaventure with other needs that were being expressed by other clients in the Quebec region at the time.