Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing. You have the honour to be the first panel, so we're going to forget about all that you say, because after six weeks of all this we're going to have a difficult task trying to see what we can actually put in the report.
I have a couple of questions, and I have a lot of time, so I'm going to start first with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
We talked a lot about the stimulus money last year. There were a lot of problems getting the stimulus money out, and now you're telling me that we have to continue. We've had a lot of opinions on whether it should be extended or increased. Again, you didn't go into specifics, but can you just elaborate on whether all your projects have started, in fact, and whether there are some that still have to begin, and whether any of your projects will end on time as per the expiration date?