Nick Whalen at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to all of you for coming here today.

We have seen both in our Shared Services Canada report and now possibly in respect to this horizontal engineering program plan that the previous government felt, erroneously, that it could contract out of its ability to contract manage within its department, perhaps through not adequately staffing at the different levels within government and the ability to communicate with engineers and other professionals in the supply chain.

I'm wondering if you could explain to me a bit about the horizontal engineering program plan, how your departments interface with the suppliers in respect of that program, whether or not you were adequately staffed and funded from your side, and what you may have done to correct that error since.