Mrs. Michaela Huard at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 29th, 2009 / 4:10 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Information Management, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

I'll let Micheline reflect on which it is. We identified this really quite early.

There are pros and cons to having lots of work to do. Our regions are very well placed to say that they have this work and all these projects. They actually came to us very early, in June, and told us that they could do even more. So we asked for that approval quite early.

There are a number of projects that we want to be able to have ready to go next year. I expect that a lot of it is in that area, but I don't know that the majority of it would be.

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