Thank you, Madam Chair. There is an appeal mechanism. To my limited knowledge, and I will just verify it, I don't know that the government has made use of that appeal mechanism. To the knowledge of the witnesses present, Madam Chair, that is not something that is generally done. This is a policy whereby the primary principal of the policy is to provide fair compensation for municipal services to the various community governments. I imagine there would be some hesitancy in general by most departments to challenge an assessment that we are part of creating.

To my knowledge, as I have said, this particular one was not challenged or appealed, particularly with capital projects, and at the front of a capital project, the value of the asset at that moment in time is perhaps less difficult to ascertain than what an item would be worth over the course of many years. That wasn't considered to be needed in this particular instance, to the best of my knowledge.