Thank you for giving me the opportunity to answer this question.
Mr. Chair, so far, PWGSC has adopted very innovative approaches in order to realize projects. Since the long term vision and plan program for the parliamentary precinct was adopted, we have been able to speed up the process and reduce time frames for a number of our projects. I can tell you about West Block, for example. It has taken three years less than expected, simply because we sped up the rehabilitation of committee rooms at 1 Wellington Street, where the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography used to be, and because we used a new approach for hiring people from the private sector. We are now using an approach based on construction management.
This construction manager approach in itself allowed us to gain another year. We have several other projects that I can give as examples. They will show that we were able to achieve significant savings in time, which of course translates into savings in dollars.