At the time, there was a desire to give the projects on Parliament Hill the importance they deserved. The projects were tremendously important and needed special attention. Also, at the time, in 2007, we had funding approval for the next five years. That gave us the money we needed to continue to put projects in place for the next five years. So we really needed a branch to get things done.
On October 26th, 2010. See this statement in context.