Thank you, Mr. Chair. At one time we had a deputy minister of Intergovernmental Affairs based out of Ottawa and we had government offices. We found it was very helpful and useful to have a government office in Ottawa. So we've continued to maintain a government office. It keeps getting smaller and cheaper all the time just because of what's happening in Ottawa. The office space we had in the Delta building, because of renovations, we were able to get out of our lease and get a significantly better deal in or new office, which everybody should visit when they're in Ottawa, which has a view of Parliament.
It’s very beneficial for us when we go to Ottawa to have meetings, to have negotiations. Also people from the Northwest Territories that go to Ottawa, they have a place to go and they're welcome to use our offices while they're there. We have one staff that helps us make arrangements when we go to Ottawa and when we have to go to meet with federal Ministers and so on. So they coordinate all of those. We have to go through heavy security and so on.
For us, we still see it as money well spent. I think we have a lease that's for about five years, I believe. Thank you, Mr. Chair.