Government Operations committee  Right now, working from my memory, I don't think we have a lot of projects to replace official residences, but we do have a lot of projects to renovate, maintain or upgrade some of those official residences. We came out of the pandemic with a large backlog. We had a lot of work that had been deferred.

Government Operations committee  Yes. That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Regarding mission operations, the head of mission has the authority.

Government Operations committee  No, Tom Clark didn't lie to this committee. This decision was made independently by headquarters, and he didn't have influence over it.

Government Operations committee  No, he did not.

Government Operations committee  No, she did not.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  No, he did not.

Government Operations committee  No, they would not.

Government Operations committee  What I would say is that, in this particular case, it was a great opportunity for us to solve a decade-long problem that we had with an aging property that was not meeting our requirements. We acquired a smaller and less expensive property, creating savings, not only immediately but also in the long term, for Canadians.

Government Operations committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on this.

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, he didn't lie to the committee. To my knowledge, I received a comment that had been referred from his staff to our project management team. It's been written in the document—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Clark didn't mention that to me.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The management consular officer is the head of administration. I mentioned head of administration for simplicity.

Government Operations committee  Who would report to them?