Mr. Chair, I will give you an answer that focuses on our infrastructures, meaning our buildings.
You noted that, with the Economic Action Plan, we gave $200 million to PWGSC on two occasions. So that's $400 million that we've invested in our buildings. That was fairly unusual. It was additional money that was added to our resources. That's the first point.
That money was invested in two years. The first year, we invested about 96% of the money and, in the second year, about 95.7%. This is very important. We were able to be very active to ensure that the investments were used before the door—or window—closed.
I'll also say that, when it comes to annual investments, our base is about $500 million.
Stephen, is it $500 million per annum for capitalization?
This is for investments in our buildings, a little like the investments made at the time through the Economic Action Plan.
This is ongoing.
To my knowledge, Mr. Boulerice, this money has not been decreased. These amounts are ongoing, and we have a system in place that defines what the priorities will be and where the investments must be made in our building inventory, which is worth several billions of dollars.
Lastly, we were given specific funds for our…
engineering assets. We have 20 engineering assets.
We have bridges, dams and highways. We have 20 specific engineering assets. We were given amounts in the last budget for health and safety investments, as well as for studies. In the last budget, we were given additional amounts to make investments in the order of $120 million. It's a supplementary envelope, which adds to what we have for our buildings. It's for the engineering assets.
These are the department's three asset areas.