Thank you, Madam Chair. Public Works and Services has a pivotal role to play in how we manage and, of course, pay for our facilities or buildings. With the skyrocketing price of energy of late, it is very much in fashion now, Madam Chair, to look not only at the base lease or construction costs of a given building or facility, but at the long-term O and M costs. How much over the life of a lease of a building, Madam Chair, will the government be paying to heat, light and ventilate a given structure? All of this will come back to haunt anyone who is paying to live or use a building if we really haven't paid very close attention to how we can incorporate good practice and policy when we make a decision on leasing a building and designing or refurbishing buildings.

Where I would like to go with this, Madam Chair, is to ask the Minister to what extent we are incorporating the O and M costs of our buildings in terms of making decisions about leases or getting involved in the design and the specing of our capital projects. I know that could be a very big and technical area, but one thing I am really interested in is just how much weight or significance do we put on those longer-term O and M costs versus, say, what a bottom line, square foot cost would be? Can we start there, Madam Chair? Thank you.