I guess it comes down to whether, when it comes to infrastructure, you want foreign companies building your infrastructure for you.
I'm aware of the project you're talking about. I'm aware of the events that took place, and they did make some mistakes. They're certainly paying for them and they are correcting their mistakes, but I would say you're just taking chances at some point.
For example, in New York there have been a number of bridges that were built by a Brazilian company that there were significant problems with. The Whitestone Bridge was completed seven years ago, and after two years they started to notice some problems with the quality of the work. There is that element. Whether that's a big element or not, I can't really say because a lot of these international companies certainly know what they're doing. They're certainly qualified.
From the Canadian consultants that I deal with, such as Lavalin and the big companies we do a lot of work with, the European general contractors are very large construction companies. They have a tendency to take over the project from the local Canadian consultants because they are telling them that this is how they build things in Europe and this is the way they're going to build this job. We lose a little bit of control.
The design consultant does lose some control of the project because the international company is so large and has so much horsepower that they tell them how they're going to build the job as opposed to our telling them what we're going to do. We do see that, but I wouldn't want to dwell on it too much. I'm well aware that it is a problem at the Freyssinet project.
Of course, we have selfish interests, but for the infrastructure, especially when it comes to bridges and a lot of the infrastructure we're talking about, we think it is important to have that protected and built in Canada.