Information & Ethics committee  No. I am going to correct you. The hotel has been occupied for a majority of the time. The Border Services Agency sent asylum seekers to the hotel when it opened. That was done in collaboration with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and with health services. A lot of asylum seekers stayed in the hotel for several weeks, particularly in quarantine during the pandemic.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that is correct.

Information & Ethics committee  I have nothing to hide. The people came knocking on my door; I did not solicit anyone. When we signed the contracts, the government told us that this information was confidential for reasons of immigration and security, customs or national, I don't know.

Information & Ethics committee  That is correct. As landlords, we do not advertise our prices. Personally, I am a businessman. We do business with other companies. When we sign contracts, we do not disclose them to the person next door.

Information & Ethics committee  It was the member for Châteauguay.

Information & Ethics committee  We've owned the land for several years. My father was living on a small part of the farm.

Information & Ethics committee  From what I now, there are individual families who live at different houses along that road.

Information & Ethics committee  Could you reframe that question, please?

Information & Ethics committee  I presume it does. I haven't spoken to any of them. We know they're not happy about it. They're very disappointed to see that there's traffic and buses. The valuation of their property is probably not maintained as what it was before.

Information & Ethics committee  I would say so, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Now the weather is the same as it is in Montreal, except that we probably have more snow in our area in the wintertime and it can get very cold, like -10° Celsius with the wind.

Information & Ethics committee  It's definitely too cold for them.

Information & Ethics committee  I am going to clarify things. At the start, it was people from the Canada Border Services Agency who came knocking on my door to see me, because customs was short of a lot of space to accommodate the asylum seekers.