Government Operations committee  We are the delivery organization, as I said, but it includes an oversight role. It's a hands-on management role—the inspecting, the monitoring. It's very similar to what Public Works does for other federal government departments. The Department of National Defence is the biggest

Government Operations committee  It’s approximately $100 million, or in that ballpark. We're not an appropriated entity, so we have to ensure that our fees match our expenses. We don't incur losses or run in a deficit position, nor do we borrow. We manage our business against the program and services we deliver

Government Operations committee  Again, if you take approximately 2,500 completed last year, a number of projects have a life of more than a year, so it would be in the thousands, obviously, that are ongoing.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. My name is James Paul. I am the president and chief executive officer of Defence Construction Canada. DCC is a federal Crown corporation established in 1951 pursuant to the Defence Production Act to operate as the tendering and s