I take the point, and it's well made, but at the risk of insisting on this, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, because we're asking you how much of this stimulus money is actually getting out and if it is producing the effects on the economy. You were given reams of documents which putatively show that all of this money has gone to various municipalities, but if indeed those policies and practices have yet to be met, and if indeed the municipalities, as we suspect, have not necessarily met those yet, these are just announcements.
As Le Devoir pointed out on its front page today, at a cost of $7,000 an ad for millions and millions of dollars across Canada, we're boasting about the government's spending, but is it not the case that we can't really know if that money can flow if those criteria have not been met? In other words, it's a condition precedent, a condition sine qua non, to any spending that those criteria and procedures and practices be followed. Is it not?