Government Operations committee  We do not have Ontario's job numbers, because we haven't asked for them. That's important to know.

Government Operations committee  The honourable member may not have it because of the committee's motion. The committee had asked us for the progress reports, the data sheets that we got from provinces, and we have provided them to the committee.

Government Operations committee  From the last meeting?

Government Operations committee  This meeting we promised you we will give you the template for the Canada-Ontario infrastructure framework agreement. I think an honourable member asked for all templates for the provinces, so we promised that. There might be some outstanding promises we made at the last committee.

Government Operations committee  We will have to ask for a legal opinion. I can't tell you when I'm going to get this legal opinion.

Government Operations committee  Madam Chairman, I appeal to you. We can give you what we have. We are not trying to not give you the information. We have provided the information we have to the committee. We do not have the information the committee seems to be requesting of us.

Government Operations committee  If I can--

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the statement as well as the question. The only province we have seen that has a schedule along the lines you have pointed to, so far as we know, is Ontario. We did check with other provinces. Some provinces collect the job numbers; some provinces don't.

Government Operations committee  Regarding what we can ask from the provinces and what we're entitled to, I appreciate that the honourable member is giving a legal interpretation. Given that it's a cost-share agreement, your assumption is that we are entitled to anything the province asks for from its citizens.

Government Operations committee  It's an important issue, Madam Chairman. When I talked about the Government of Canada, I was talking about the infrastructure stimulus fund that is administered by Infrastructure Canada. I cannot speak about the regional agencies, as one of the honourable members just said. I'm not exactly sure what they're collecting.

Government Operations committee  We will send you the template, not the signature version.

Government Operations committee  No. Good afternoon, Madam Chairman, and hello, members of the committee. We're very pleased to visit you again this week. My colleague John Forster has some quick remarks basically relating to the questions the committee asked. We understand you have questions about the comments we made when we appeared last week.

Government Operations committee  No, thank you.

Government Operations committee  I'd rather provide it. I just would like some flexibility in terms of timing and when we could provide you all of these things, because I'm not exactly sure.... I have to check with our team.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, Madam Chairman. I want to make sure that we don't promise something we can't deliver in the timeframe. It's very important for us to provide the committee with accurate information. We can't provide you with draft numbers or the data with problems. What we will do is look through everything we gave to the Parliamentary Budget Officer and try to summarize it in a way so that it would be helpful to the committee, because I think that's also many pages—