Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for being here with us via technology. It's a great way to use technology so you can join us early in the morning.
As the member of Parliament for Kelowna—Lake Country, I'm very familiar with our health care improvements in the Okanagan Valley over the last few years. Thank you, to each one of you, for your contribution. I was at the groundbreaking recently for the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre facility, and I am looking forward to the completion of that project on time and on budget, an even earlier completion, as with the other projects to date.
As you've mentioned, we've had a series of witnesses over the last couple of weeks. We've heard that P3s are another tool in the toolbox. They are not a specific panacea, for every project to have a $77.9 million infrastructure. Nine kilometres of a highway project just went to conventional tender.
Ms. Clark, could you share with the committee what projects you think are better suited for P3s? Supplemental to that, we've heard from a couple of witnesses that the biggest aspect is risk transfer and trying to quantify that risk. It's been a big factor, transferring the risk to the private sector—at what cost and how do you quantify that?
I'll let either Mr. Blain or Ms. Clark answer, if you'd like to jump in, please.