What the reporter refers to is an access-to-information request for the briefing books for incoming ministers. These things are four or five volumes. They tell the minister about the department, his duties, and the legislation. But along with that, this is one opportunity, a critical function of the public service, to look at policy options and ideas so that one can brief an incoming government and the ministers of the crown on the possibilities at their disposal. These were some of the ideas the department set down on paper; there have been no decisions to take action on these ideas.
Transport Canada holds immense amounts of assets, partly because we have to make sure we hold the land that's necessary--in ports, for example, so that they don't impede transportation or navigation. By the seaway we have huge amounts of land. We own vineyards, half a golf course, a cemetery. So that was the question: what is the role of Transport Canada as we look to the future, especially when the governments are looking at their assets? There's been no decision on this. And this one was written in the public service, as the public service is expected to think through these things.