Is it not somewhat amateurish to be playing around with hypotheses of this kind so that ultimately you sign up for two different places without any prior certainty of renting that space? You might have presumed that you would subsequently rent space at Place Bonaventure, but you were not certain of that.
Therefore, the department took a chance and rented space in a second location. From the outset, we have tried to find out what exactly happened. My hypothesis is that the people working at Canada Economic Development in Place Victoria did not feel like moving. In the Department of Public Works, the regulations oblige the department to put out tenders, so that if you formulate the hypothesis whereby you need extra space, you can subsequently say that you no longer need that and you negotiate with Place Victoria.
That is exactly what happened. You went from $430 per square metre or square foot to $308 per square foot. After concluding the contract, you negotiated by mutual agreement, although Place Victoria had not won the competition. This is not a movie scenario, but I feel that they tried to do things in that way and that it worked for them.
Could anything like that have happened?