We looked at loan guarantees, and the trade lawyers—believe me, we've been through this more than once with my members pushing on me—are pretty clear. If a loan guarantee gives you a real benefit that is calculable, it's actionable under the trade agreement, and that way our hands are relatively tied.
The one thing the government has done, but hasn't done well enough, which would really help in those areas, is accelerated capital appreciation. That is a huge improvement because then you can bring in private capital—and in some ways it's better than government money. You see a fast return because of accelerated capital appreciation. You don't get investments in things just because there's government money, but you actually get it strategic. The government has provided us with accelerated capital appreciation year after year, but it only extends it one or two years at a time. These are capital projects that require five or ten years' planning.
We end up doing what's fast to be done as opposed to what's strategic to do because of the one-year extensions.
We had similar problems, though not as bad, with the green transformation money; it had to be spent very quickly because it was under the.... I don't remember what it was called—Canada Works? There were five million signs; you'd think I'd remember what the program was called.