Thank you very much.
It almost seems, when you look at it on the surface, with the dynamics and the timing of this, that it's one of those things where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If the federal government announces a project while there happens to be a campaign going on, people say they're interfering in the campaign; if you don't announce a project, they'll say you're interfering with the campaign. It seems that no matter what you did we were headed for this kind of accusation/circus.
One quote that Mark Holland left out of his presentation was that Wayne Wouters, before the committee, when asked point blank if there was anything even slightly abnormal, out of step, or inappropriate in any way whatsoever in the process of this project with regard to Treasury Board, said no, that everything went forward precisely as it was supposed to.
I guess one thing that a lot of people in the Ottawa area—your constituents, people in the area—want to know is whether the $200 million from the federal government is still available for the City of Ottawa for a rail project, going forward.