Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Page.
I want to just begin with a statement that our party fully supports your work and your budget and your office. We think you've supported parliamentarians very well, and we look forward to today's initiative, but also to the future ones you mentioned.
I was quite intrigued by your mention of the future work on accountability framework and the kind of reporting you might do. Perhaps I can ask you, with a specific example that is important to all of us, whether the infrastructure money is likely to get out the door and be spent and used by shovels as quickly as assumed in the budget. I think it's extremely important for us to be able to monitor that in a timely, accurate way.
I would think that one might consider stages like applications that might come into the government, decision lines of the government, money out the door—but is money out the door just to another government, or is money out the door to the actual project? The framework you're talking about, would it be able to help us in those dimensions to truly see if the infrastructure dollars are getting to the projects and when?