Thank you.
I think that all of the honourable members would appreciate the importance of the United States. There's no country in the world that is more important to Canada's economic and security interests.
Within that country, New York is the economic centre. It's also a global economic centre for global capital markets. The committee will have heard the assistant comptroller general of Canada yesterday say that all real property needs to serve a program need. In the case of the Global Affairs portfolio, those program needs include the trade and investment program, the public affairs program and the program providing consular services to Canadians.