Government Operations committee  Yes, I can. I'm sorry for my hesitation. You mean differences in terms of the P3. Quite clearly, this project would never have gone ahead in the first place had it not been for a number of different factors. I may have alluded in my presentation to the fact that the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre, prior to 2003, was actually designed and ready to build.

Government Operations committee  I'll just give you a little bit of an insight into how the monitoring takes place.

Government Operations committee  Okay. In monitoring during the 30 years of operation, we're paid for performance. There are very large and conclusive specifications for all our subcontractors. For example, one of the advantages of a PPP project is that we're highly incentivized to ensure that the asset is available 100% of the time.

Government Operations committee  I thought that was within one minute.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for inviting us this morning. I'm here as operational director for John Laing projects in B.C.. I will give you the operational overview, which is the less sexy part, probably being the 30-year part of the—it's where the rubber hits the road, so to speak. I will give you a brief overview of our B.C. projects and give you some of my observations on advantages of PPPs.