I'd like to thank you for being here.
As a former contractor for 22 years, I come at it from a different angle. I'd like to talk briefly about your views on the management of projects. Often when these are conceived and scoped, a well-written proposal will include contingencies. It will include contingencies for financial and time constraints, for overtime, for whatever, and it will also account for unforeseen conditions. In the case of municipalities, I'm sure there's also an element of the politics and dynamics that will happen around city hall in terms of what turf is whose.
Having seen that, and having been part of that process as a private entrepreneur, I'm wondering what your views are on projects: the difference between how they've been managed from municipality to municipality and what you've seen and heard in terms of how well they've done from a project management view.
When you're looking at 20,000 projects with a 97% success rate, anyone would view that as a huge win for the country, in my view. But you're going to have all different types of situations because of both the good and the bad management of a project.
My question drives at two fronts. Number one, are you aware of projects that are under budget, ahead of schedule, or both? Number two, are you aware of projects that were totally mismanaged, or they are poorly managed and thus creating problems in getting to the completion date?