Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister and officials, for being here this afternoon.
Minister, you must be encouraged, as I am, to hear today not only the interest of opposition parties but their support of this initiative as well.
In your opening remarks you mentioned some examples of other jurisdictions that have previously gone through IT consolidation exercises. I think you mentioned Ontario and B.C. Perhaps there are some other examples internationally as well. We have some private sector examples, with which Mr. Westcott is very familiar.
Can you explain what lessons we've learned from these previous examples, and how we plan to apply these lessons to the federal government's exercise?