It was about three years in the making. I was actually serving on Treasury Board when this initiative was first contemplated. We talk about the symbolism of the relationships between China and other countries. This was motivated by a desire to make a statement to China that British Columbia wants to be very aggressive as a partner in international commerce and I think we succeeded at that. The rollout of the bond was a huge success. It was oversubscribed, both the first one and the second one, and they wound up, actually, at an interest rate that was more favourable in both cases than they had anticipated when they went into it.
On February 26th, 2015. See this statement in context.