Government Operations committee  No, no.

Government Operations committee  On a daily basis, that's true. The subcontractor does deal with the task authorization or the technical authority on a daily basis. But in behind all of that is the plethora...whether it's security clearances, billing, ensuring that the actual contract.... We're the prime on the contract, so we are also ultimately responsible for the overarching contract management of everything that goes on.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we are in the process of trying to expand. We've done very well in the NCR area and through what we call Coradix Technology—

Government Operations committee  And Dalian—

Government Operations committee  Certainly. I appreciate that, Chair and honourable member. The aspect of us creating the indigenous track on the contracting side of things allows us to hire pretty much whoever we want as far as consultants are concerned, but the indigenous side of it or the PSIB side of it is auditable.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, and to the member, thank you very much for the question. I started the business in 2001—

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. In 2001, I went to Coradix when I first won my first contract out of the PSAB. We formed a business together. We basically hold, in a corporate structure.... We have two full-time employees with Dalian—

Government Operations committee  —but we have a shared services model that helps both companies basically thrive as to what we're doing today.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. I started the company 23 years ago. We started out as a hardware and software company back in 2001. We ended up coming into the time frame around 2007. We started adding professional services contracting online, meaning TBIPS, SBIPS and those types of professional services contracts with the federal government.

Government Operations committee  I'll try to be quick. I'm very proud to be part of the PSAB and the PSIB, which is the procurement strategy for indigenous business. I helped form the policy. I've worked with Allen Frost, INAC and ISC. I still continue to do that today. We are completely registered and have audits very regularly—any time we do JVs.

Government Operations committee  We each have opening statements.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is David Yeo. I'm pleased to have the opportunity to speak with the committee members today. Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee, I would like to acknowledge that the land that we gather on today is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin nation and is now home to many other first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.