Finance committee  With respect to the number of clients per year, when I met with revenue department officials and I mentioned, for instance, that I could have two clients at the same time, in other words work two days at one client's and three days at another's, I was told that there were employees working two days at one employer and three days at another, and that they were considered employees.

Finance committee  I don't have a brief.

Finance committee  I'll repeat the third example. How do the taxation authorities view time sheets, which are a good project management practice that help monitor the progress of the project as a whole? This would be another monitoring indicator because by providing time sheets the client can supposedly monitor our work.

Finance committee  I will slow down. I'll repeat...

Finance committee  Ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee, good morning. I am Jean-Pierre Mathieu. I am an engineer by training and I have a masters in project management. I have been working for approximately 25 years. I became self-employed in the year 2000. In 2006, my company received assessments from the Quebec Ministry of Revenue for the years 2002 to 2004.