We will reconvene the meeting.
We are finished the in camera portion and we're going into the public portion now.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
I want to begin by thanking our witnesses for their patience, especially you, Mr. Staszenski, for getting up early and joining us all the way from Edmonton. We appreciate that very much.
Also, Mr. Karakasis, from the Building Owners and Managers Association of Ottawa, welcome, sir. We apologize for keeping you waiting.
We have a situation going on in the House of Commons where we expect the bells to ring fairly soon to call us back for a vote. We have no control over that. It is the practice of the committee that when the bills ring we have to adjourn the committee and leave.
We want to welcome you here and thank you for the trouble you've taken to prepare a presentation. We'll give you a few minutes to at least introduce your subject matter. We may have to ask you to send in through the clerk the body of your text that we can deliberate. We are going to make an effort though to call you back again should the committee find time in the context of this study.
Without further delay I'm going to ask Mr. Staszenski from Edmonton to begin with three to five minutes if you could, sir, to give us a brief overview of your presentation. We hope the bells don't interrupt us.
You have the floor, sir.