Mr. Chair, I have just a couple of comments.
One is that, just in terms of sound risk management, I think the downside risks of job losses and the economy slowing further have to be taken into account in the risk management equation. When an examination is undertaken of spending, one way in which to save time and to accelerate the delivery of programing is to focus on the terms, the conditions, and the criteria that are really the most critical.
When the economy is at full employment and when times are good, for example, if the government were looking to spend on infrastructure and other sorts of things, typically what one would want to do would be to focus more effort on picking the most strategic projects.
At the moment, with job losses and with the slowdown in the economy, a key purpose of the stimulus measures is to stimulate aggregate demand. The way in which you stimulate aggregate demand is you get dollars into the economy quickly, hence the focus in the budget on short-term, shovel-ready projects.
One way to reflect that in the programming is to have a very focused set of criteria to indicate that these are the things we need to focus on in order to get that project approved. Perhaps some of the other considerations that might be there in different circumstances, such as some of the more strategic aspects and so on--