Minister and your team, thank you very much for being here, and I appreciate a lot of the work you have been doing.
I recognize that the modernization of pay transactions, the defence procurement that you've been heavily involved with over the course of the year that you've been part of, the national shipbuilding strategy, the Canada Lands Company for affordable housing and other enablements are great initiatives that you've put forward, as are the national capital assets that need to be confronted, and, of course, more importantly, you've identified issues of modernization and renewal.
I get it. I know that major cuts by the former government didn't help in terms of some of the issues that are prevalent today. When you have card-carrying Conservatives double-dipping in procurement, as they have been and as was found out yesterday, we have to take measures to correct those.
Minister, I commend what you and your team have been doing. I want to give you the opportunity now to discuss some of the methods of detection, the investments being made, the modernization around procurement and the office of supplier integrity and compliance measures, which you have identified, and what it is that we're doing going forward.