There is some continuing infrastructure spending in Canada. It is not stopping. We funded it over a period of seven years, and there are some continuing expenditures in the infrastructure area, including, as you know, major expenditures with respect to repairs to the Champlain Bridge in Montreal. These are important initiatives.
As I said, the private sector needs to step up to the plate now that they are holders of strong balance sheets.
With respect to the reduction plan, realize that this plan does not affect transfers to provinces or territories, and it does not affect transfers to individuals in Canada. We're not doing what the Liberals did in the mid-1990s, when they damaged health care and education by freezing and cutting funding to the provinces. We're not going to do that, but we are looking to save 5% of the operating budget of the government.
I've had business people say to me that it's nothing more than a modest reduction of government spending. It is necessary, though, if we want to get back to a balanced budget by 2014.