Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just want to go back to a few questions you were asked. You answered one question that I thought was a little special. Certainly your municipalities are responsible for the engineers and the plans and specifications, but I think that if you are given time, you will be able to get them done. You don't have enough time. Maybe it isn't up to the federal government to look after this, but still, as you said earlier, there could have been more flexibility in the allocation of the funds. They could at least have helped you, have given you time to have the plans drawn up.
When the Minister came here in April or May, he was asked whether he didn't think that to build a bridge, or to build a road that was already planned ... I'm not talking about plans already drawn up by a municipality and specifications already in place. I'm talking about a road that is needed but that the municipality doesn't have the money for. It has no money to spend on plans and specifications and it can't invest in the road right away. It will need two years, is that not correct, gentlemen? So it is important to have some flexibility. I don't understand the question you were asked.
That being said, the third report says that 90% of the Economic Action Plan funds have been committed, and you don't seem to agree with this. We are also told that over 220,000 jobs have been created, and you don't seem to agree with this. Correct me when I'm wrong. We are also told that all of the necessary agreements are in place so you can receive the money, and you don't seem to agree with this. And we are told that the federal economic stimulus funds ... The Government has made commitments to over 4,700 provincial, territorial and municipal infrastructure projects, but you don't seem to be sure, and you are the ones on the ground.
Gentlemen, I may be putting you in a corner, but do you think the third report and the items I have just referred to are correct?