Transport committee  Yes, but any leftover money is allocated based on the number of inhabitants. For example, where there is funding, there is no regional allocation. Base funding was addressed during discussions on fiscal balance between the provinces. It is to help small provinces and, especially,

Transport committee  I won't speak to the Port Mann Bridge specifically, but certainly in our infrastructure programs, whether it's that infrastructure or the gateway programs at Transport, we've always tried to encourage public-private partnerships. Some of those partnerships and consortiums have ha

Transport committee  Well, for most of our large projects, initially, before the recession, we had actually put in place a kind of P3 screen for very large projects; the proponent had to demonstrate why a P3 model couldn't work. Because of the recession, we suspended that kind of test for big project

Transport committee  If I may finish the answer, I think one of the things you'll find if you look to the experience of the United States with this kind of reporting, this recipient reporting of job creation, is that it's very inconsistent. In their first audit of that, the government accounting offi

Transport committee  It was Tuesday. We were given a one-week deadline.

Transport committee  The claims data and progress reports we ask from all provinces are in an online system. It includes things such as project start dates, tender dates, and money being expended. The job creation impact of the entire stimulus package, the entire economic action plan, is done by the

Transport committee  We're not asking, in our claims and progress reports, for a project by project breakdown of jobs--

Government Operations committee  It is not the case in Canada's agreement with the province. Ontario goes out and signs its deals with all the municipalities. They may have put that in their agreement--

Government Operations committee  No. In terms of the projects that we know are completed--without having any claims information--there are about 47. Most of those are in the stimulus fund.

Government Operations committee  As I mentioned, the first round of that reporting was in August and September, and that's what we're just processing and finishing off now, so I can't give you a dollar figure to it. But when you print out the claims and reports, it's over 1,700 projects that haven't been reporte

Government Operations committee  Yes, it's an online system, so you go in at each project and you complete for each one of the projects the start dates, the tender dates, all that information, costs incurred to date, and the federal share and the provincial share. So on each project, they report on that, if they

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to, Madam Chair.

Government Operations committee  We have agreements with each province and territory. They're required, at a minimum, to report quarterly. In our previous programs, they'd do it once a year. In this program, because of the time sensitivity, they're reporting every quarter on all the projects. They tell us whethe

Government Operations committee  Our reports come through the province. Our money goes to the province, which distributes it to municipal governments. The province has its own agreement with the municipalities. The province may have requested more frequent reporting from certain municipalities. But provinces and

Government Operations committee  Yes, definitely. The other thing is that you have to remember you're to look at stimulus in the context of the whole suite of programs we offer. The Building Canada programs, for example, strictly focus on new construction. We don't do rehabilitation/repair work. So for stimulu