Order, please. I'd like to call the meeting to order.
I want to welcome everyone. Bienvenue à tous.
This meeting, colleagues, witnesses, is a matter the committee has been charged with for some time now. It's chapter 7, “Acquisition of Leased Office Space”, of the May 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada. It was originally referred to the committee on May 16, 2006.
We have before us today Janice Cochrane, former Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Mr. Gary Polachek, who was involved with the company that at one time owned Place Victoria in the city of Montreal.
Mr. Williams.