Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair.
I'm new in the role of director general of transformation at Veterans Affairs. I joined the department and moved to Charlottetown only last November.
As for my previous experience, I came from another department completely. I came from the Department of Canadian Heritage, where I was in charge of all the planning and preparation for hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010. It was 10 years of work preparing for the bid and then preparing for the actual hosting of the games.
That was a large-scale project with a lot of moving parts and many partners. A big part of the work I did at Canadian Heritage was with many federal family members—some 42 departments and agencies. It was a very complex process to deliver something on time—