Finance committee  No, actually, this is just to fulfill...because we can acquire property, we can manage it, but we are over a hundred years old and from time to time we do find that we have facilities, land, properties that become surplus to our requirements, particularly as we partner with other

Finance committee  Very few government departments are actually real property holders. I don't believe that the granting councils hold any property whatsoever. This is something that is unique to our act.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I'll speak to clause 278. The National Research Council Act now permits the National Research Council to hold and acquire real property. However, it does not give us the authority to dispose of it. From time to time when we have infrastructure facilities that are surplus to our