I will call the meeting to order.
Colleagues, we are here today with a number of witnesses from the private sector. We are, in a sense, continuing a review we are doing on the subject of federal government procurement, and in particular the access of SMEs to the federal government procurement process.
The witnesses in this part of the meeting will have different perspectives, different windows. We'll begin with them. This is the first of three hearings on this subject.
We have, from the Information Technology Association of Canada, Monsieur Louis Savoie, chair of the Public Sector Business Committee; Mr. Hicham Adra, member of the executive committee of the same organization; and Linda Oliver, vice-president.
Then, from the Association of Canadian Engineering Companies, we have John Gamble, president of Consulting Engineers of Ontario; and Andrew Steeves, vice-president, ADI Limited.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing. I'm quite certain you'll have opening remarks. We'll follow the order in our agenda.
Linda Oliver, you may begin. We'd like to keep the presentation to less than 10 minutes. I think eight minutes is the window we look for, but keep that in mind as you present.