Transport committee  As of April 1 the government intends to have the plan open for business. This means that projects will be identified, prioritized by municipalities, provinces, and the federal government. Obviously, smaller projects tend to proceed much faster than bigger projects because they're

Transport committee  Yes. As the program elements will be finalized and announcements will be made through the fall, through the normal process, supplementary estimates will be brought to dedicate funding to the components of the $14-billion element of the new plan. The main estimates already include

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  If proponents prefer to look at P3s, they are absolutely eligible to do so. That will be considered. What is mandatory is that if there's a project for over $100 million, it will have to go through a P3 screening.

Transport committee  I'll explain that what is in the estimates does not reflect the new plan that has been announced in budget 2013, and funded and reannounced in budget 2014. This will come to supplementary estimates. What's in the estimates reflects both making the gas tax fund a statutory element

Transport committee  What is currently before Parliament for the estimates is fundamentally the continuation of the programs that are largely committed, but not entirely—

Transport committee  That's not in the estimates.