Finance committee  My name is Sebastian Badour. I'm a principal adviser at Infrastructure Canada. I work in the policy and communications branch.

Finance committee  The $2 billion is the amount it reached in 2009-10. It has been at that level since then.

Finance committee  There are various estimates out there on the infrastructure deficit. There's a lot of debate over them. It's hard for us to nail down a figure in terms of what the deficit is.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  There's already funding until 2013-14. It was provided for in Budget 2007 as part of the Building Canada plan, and we've already signed agreements on that until then with provinces, territories, municipal associations, and the City of Toronto.