I don't think there's much doubt among most people who have looked at the Canadian economy that we need to increase productivity. There are several things we need to do: lower taxes; invest more in research and development and in post-secondary education and training, so that we have a very able and skilled workforce; and build infrastructure. We've allowed an infrastructure deficit to grow in Canada, one of the classic examples being our border crossings, especially Windsor–Detroit, which I referred to.
There is an innovative financing tool available, and that is the public–private partnership tool that has been used in the United Kingdom, Great Britain, the United States, and more recently in Canada. That is a financing mechanism for the most part, hence the interest of the Minister of Finance in such things. What it can accomplish—and we've seen this elsewhere in the world—is allowing projects to be done more quickly and on budget, with some risk transfer. That's good if we can accelerate this.
There are infrastructure projects in Canada that are of national economic importance. What we're proposing in the plan, in Advantage Canada, is not that they must be done as public–private partnerships, but that public–private partnerships must be considered as an option before the chosen path is taken.