Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
My name is Tim McGrath. I'm assistant deputy minister of the real property branch of the Department of Public Works and Government Services. With me, as you mentioned, is Ellen Stensholt, our department's senior legal counsel from the Department of Justice.
As members know, the crown is involved in a legal dispute with Rosdev over the management of L'Esplanade Laurier and Les Terrasses de la Chaudière complexes.
At the request of our minister's office, departmental officials were asked to brief representatives from the Prime Minister's Office on the file. At these briefings officials reviewed the chronology of key events with respect to the Government of Canada's involvement with the two complexes and explained the various areas of disagreement. These briefings were strictly informational in nature, in that officials provided factual information; there were no follow-up actions required. Let me assure the committee that we did not feel pressured in any way to take any action as a result of these meetings.
Madam Chair, my colleague and I would be pleased to answer your questions.