Finance committee  No. They are two different pieces, actually. The one you just referred to, your second piece, is that it's normal for invoices to be negotiated every month. A general contractor receives 20 to 30 invoices monthly from its subtrades. They negotiate a bit. Then it's incorporated i

Finance committee  It is successful, because it prevents unnecessary adjudications. It's an operational thing. The aim of legislation is to try to take away problems. It's trying to drive cultural and behavioural change. It's getting people to actually work out the problems as they occur and not sa

Finance committee  P3s are a slightly different form of contract. There's actually a project agreement that exists between the public-private partnership entity, which has no assets, and the particular owner. In this case it could be Defence Construction, by way of example. That entity then contrac

Finance committee  Thank you very much for having us at the committee meeting today. We are the General Contractors Alliance of Canada. We are a national organization made up of over 450 general contractors across Canada. We build over 85% of the institutional, commercial and light industrial cons