Thank you for your questions.
On the first question, we have an information protocol that we developed working with central agencies. When we request information in order to do our analysis, we typically send a letter to the deputy minister of the department and give what we think is sufficient time, depending on the nature of the request, for them to provide a response. On the issue relevant to today of the infrastructure stimulus fund, we wanted more detailed information on the quarterly reports the department was getting. We asked for it at the beginning of September. We gave a roughly two-week window. We have not received that information yet. So two months have gone by.
I had a conversation very recently with the deputy minister, who indicated this information will be coming very shortly. I'll likely get it this week and start to roll it out on a province-by-province basis, so we consider that to be very good news. We were told that information will include whether the project has been announced and signed off by both ministers; the total outlays for disbursements at the federal, provincial, and regional levels; and the timelines for implementation of the project. That's really good news, but we still haven't received that information, so we're not in a position today to give you the economic stimulus value of the money being spent.
So we apologize we're not in a position to provide the appropriate briefing to you today on that economic stimulus impact. The reason provided to me by the deputy minister is that it's a substantive data request. In the case of the infrastructure stimulus fund, you're talking about thousands of projects across all provinces and territories. They needed more time to clean up the database, and we expect to get a spreadsheet in a very few days.
On the second point, maybe I'll ask Sahir to highlight some of the areas where we've identified changes in names. It's part of that detailed 47-page spreadsheet. We track every initiative in budget 2009, and there are more than 100 initiatives. For every initiative, we track when the authorities were provided. We go through each quarterly report to see if there are any indicators, output measures, performance measures, or expectations of results. Do we have any indication of what moneys have flowed? It's available to you on a measure-by-measure basis that you can use. We want to make it available. Through that detailed level of tracking we have noticed that things have changed, so we've highlighted that. We don't mind doing that.
I don't know what the reason is, other than perhaps the government thought a better presentation was necessary. It's probably be a question better put to Minister Baird.