Mr. Chair, certainly significant numbers--from $20 billion to $150 billion--have been generated in terms of an infrastructure deficit and the impact on the GDP and/or the economy globally and within Canada. There was a lot of investment happening in infrastructure through the $33 billion Building Canada fund that was in place prior to the stimulus funding to try to combat that deficit. If that is coupled with what has been spent on the stimulus fund, I think it bodes well for moving Canada forward and impacting that GDP bottom line, in comparison with what other nations have been able to reinvest from their infrastructure deficits.
