You've referred to 2,700 project applications, but we are in the middle of May. I will repeat that to say that “we will”, to have forward-looking projections, does not answer my question. This money was approved, with some reservations, but it was approved by the opposition specifically so we would get stimulus money out the door. This budget was approved months ago. It was being drafted well before that. It is now the middle of May.
You yourself have admitted that when you have an application, it will take time to establish partners. We have expressed real concerns about the matching requirements for municipalities, because we know—and hopefully we'll talk a bit more about that—that it has held up an awful lot. But the key here is that this money simply has not flowed and we are not seeing shovels in the ground.
Announcements do not pay wages. The purpose of the approval of the stimulus money was to get people back to work. And you have simply not given me examples of this. I don't want forward-looking projections. I want to know what your government has actually accomplished.