Look, I want to be clear here. I don't want to leave you with the wrong impression. I certainly do not suggest that infrastructure spending can't be beneficial or is not beneficial for communities and for provinces—far from it. My point was that the platform commitments the Liberal Party made involved a plan over the mandate, but increasingly we're hearing that we should just get the money out the door quickly, because we need to spend it.
I actually think that would be the wrong approach. In fact, I think there have also been comparisons looking at how Canada spends its infrastructure money versus how the Obama administration did in its early years. I don't quite agree with you that their growth records are well ahead of ours in Canada. Until very recently, Canada had a lower unemployment rate than the United States did. You are correct that they are beginning to take off now, but that has actually happened at the back end of the administration's term. Canada, for a time, had a lower unemployment rate, something we haven't seen in generations in this country.
My point on this infrastructure spending is to take your time. Do it well. Do it over the next four years, as you committed to in the campaign. Work with the provinces. Work with municipalities. Don't let the public pressure you now, which you are going to experience, to get it all out in the first year and end up funding programs or projects that actually won't have the long-term economic benefit that we want to see them have.