I call the meeting to order, colleagues.
We're continuing our short study of procurement, with the focus being principally on the Department of Public Works. As you will recall, today we want to look at the impacts of current procurement policies and any changes in process for small and medium-sized enterprises. We asked the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to provide us with some information in that regard. We have a manufacturing sector representative as well, who has experience in both government procurement and changes in government procurement policy.
Having said that, I think today we'll let the Department of Public Works and Government Services lead off. I think they asked to lead off in the last meeting and we weren't able to let them.
From Public Works, we have Liliane saint pierre, who is assistant deputy minister, acquisitions; John Rath-Wilson, acting chief operating officer; Normand Masse, director general, services and specialized acquisitions. All of those titles come with additions, which I didn't read.
I'm going to ask Public Works, Madam saint pierre, to please start off.