You are significantly downgraded in your level of critic, but you know that from your prior provincial experience and from a few days ago.
I'd like to pick up from where we went in the transport, infrastructure and communities committee, because I'm sure, Mr. Minister, you didn't have a fulsome response then in terms of the time we had available.
A few days ago, you put out this performance report for Infrastructure Canada. There's a very nice picture of you in it and your signature and so on. In it you basically admit that your department, your government, couldn't spend any of the money it allocated in 2007-08. Of the $899 million you put forward in five different programs, only 4% of it was expended in that year. I guess there's been a lot of talking. You've talked to a lot of people and you're talking to us today, but I'm wondering if you could get more specific.
Can you tell us the specific actions you're going to take, and can you tell us very specifically how much money you're getting out the door this year? How much money is actually projected now to be spent? Because this most recent record...I think you'd have to admit that 4%, notwithstanding all the caveats you might like to put forward, is a pretty dismal achievement. It's your report card. It's signed by you. There's no money for the Building Canada Fund even committed in estimates and none out the door. There's money committed for a whole range of other programs in terms of the borders, in terms of P3s and so on, and as you see in the report, not a nickel of it is spent.
So we need to understand, Mr. Minister, your grasp on how it is you're going to turn that around so completely. So I'm wondering if you could tell us the specific actions you're taking, because these are your programs that didn't work up to now.