You said that the decision to sign two leases for the same agency, at two different locations, was justified by the fact that the needs for office space had changed, that they were ultimately reduced and that the price had been changed. This is more or less what you said:
At the department, they gave me a recommendation because, in a certain way, the initial needs that had been envisaged for Canada Economic Development, in terms of office space, because we were expecting more employees, these initial needs no longer existed and moreover, the cost of rent, that had been stipulated in the tender, had been decreased.
Do you think that it is normal for a department or an agency to make a forecast for expansion based on 25 extra employees, namely the new positions that will be created, at the outset of the tendering process whereas, at the end of the same process, there is no longer any need for extra space?
Did this occur frequently while you held that position?