Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Hammerschmidt, I'm going to re-ask my earlier question about the situation at the Valcartier base and the municipality of Shannon. I went over the interpretation from earlier, and I think a few things were off. The interpreter referred to a “real estate assessment”, but I was talking about property tax.
Sarah Perrault, the mayor, said last month that the base's property value assessment was 7% below what the city was expecting. Obviously, I'm talking about property tax.
How do you explain the difference, and how are you going to fix the problem? Municipalities rely heavily on that money to expand services around the municipality. How are you going to bridge the gap between their assessment and yours?