Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to our guests for your comments today and for your forthright information. It's very helpful for us, and particularly for me as a newer member of this committee.
I'd like to note that here you are talking in terms of the supplementary estimates (B). That represents about 5%, by my calculation, of the approved main estimates and supplementary estimates. That's the number you are looking for. Of course, the request is for items, even by your own comments, that have been approved by the Treasury Board.
I have a couple of questions about that.
Mr. Lakroni, in your comments you talked about hundreds of projects across this country that have generated activity for small and medium-sized enterprises. Can you expand a little more on that? That certainly was an area of discussion in prior testimony with the folks preceding you this afternoon.