Chair, I have a comment, not a question.
I think it would be quite helpful, as we prepare to write the report, to request from the Auditor General how she arrived at her numbers. From our understanding, she used an amount of $430 per square foot. We've now had testimony and documentation that the real amount, the actual cost, was $308 per square foot. We don't know whether or not she took into account various other costs: moving costs, lost productivity costs, less square footage.
Before we're able to draw any conclusions, I think we should request that the Auditor General and the department provide backup for the various numbers. It's certainly not clear at this time whether or not there was a real cost to the taxpayer.