Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for being here.
I've heard you refer a couple of times to slow growth in the last 10 years, yet it is a known fact that Canada had the highest economic growth in the G7 between 2005 and 2014. We have also created 1.3 million net new jobs since 2009. I would suggest that you have a meeting with the writer of your talking points and correct that because that is not correct.
I do want to go to your numbers. In the document that you released yesterday, it says that the February 26 survey shows that we will move from 0.7% nominal GDP growth in the just concluded year to 2.4% this year and 4.6% in 2017.
Could you explain why we're going to have that uptake, considering the fact that energy east will not be started and very little actual results will come from the infrastructure investment in that first year?