Government Operations committee  At the moment, the funding runs until March 31, 2011, so we'll pay all our share of all the costs incurred right up to 11:59 on March 31, 2011. In our agreements with the provinces and municipalities, everyone has agreed that if it's not finished, they will finish the project and

Government Operations committee  Right. On our claims and reports we are not requiring them to post the job creation numbers by project. It is not what they report on. They report on tender date, contract date, when they started construction, costs incurred to date, and what our share of those costs is.

Government Operations committee  To report on jobs? No. I gave an example of some of the problems you have with the self-reporting of jobs. The data you get can be quite challenging.

Government Operations committee  Not so far. We still have some work to do, though.

Government Operations committee  I think you've hit the main points. These projects may be provincial or municipal. If they're municipal, they're approved by their city council or mayor. If they're provincial, they're approved by the provincial government. They're jointly funded by all three levels of government

Government Operations committee  I'll bow to your expertise on history, but certainly in terms of our recent and modern-day infrastructure programs, there isn't a similar example that I can think of.

Government Operations committee  For our part, the number of jobs is not a program requirement. The goal of the program is to start construction projects throughout Canada. So, there are ways, economically speaking, to do an analysis and develop models to estimate the number of jobs that will be created by inves

Government Operations committee  No, but we can come back to you with something in writing. Generally speaking, and again, remember that under the budget our two challenges were to speed up Building Canada and do the stimulus. So combined across all our programs, there are 2,500 projects under way across the co

Government Operations committee  Sure.

Government Operations committee  Under the infrastructure stimulus fund, and again, this is as reported by provinces and territories earlier this fall--

Government Operations committee  We're in your hands. However you would like it, we'll provide it.

Government Operations committee  So approximately 2,500 projects are under way. For stimulus, it's around 1,250; major infrastructure, Building Canada, about 20. The community component of Building Canada--remember this is for the small communities of under 100,000 people. Between that and the top-up money--reme

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, could you please repeat the question?

Government Operations committee  Generally speaking, that is true. There are some exceptions. For example, there are base funds. In the 2007 budget, the majority of the Building Canada Fund was divided per capita, that is, per person. In the plan, there was a fund of $25 million per year over a seven-year period

Government Operations committee  The National Trails Coalition program runs a bit differently than this schematic. It runs through one agreement with the coalition, so there's one contribution agreement. The coalition then goes out and selects the projects, approves the projects, and provides the funding to the