Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I call the meeting to order.
Welcome to the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. After having been away for a week, we will carry on with our study on the energy efficiency of government buildings, structures, and public works.
Today we're pleased to welcome witnesses from the industry. We note, though, that the first person on our agenda, Mr. Doug Cane, from Caneta Research Inc., will be unable to be with us today. Unfortunately Mr. Cane was snowed in, in Toronto, and won't be joining us.
But we do have Mr. Dave Seymour with Ameresco Canada Inc., Mr. Thomas Mueller of the Canada Green Building Council, and Mr. Stephen Carpenter with Enermodal Engineering.
We'll leave Mr. Carpenter for the end because there have been some translation issues with his presentation. We may, in fact, be able to get his audiovisual presentation ready towards the latter part of the meeting, so we'll see how that goes.
I think we'll ask Mr. Dave Seymour, from Ameresco, to begin.
You have 5 to 10 minutes, Mr. Seymour, and then we'll open it up to questions from the members. Thank you, sir.