In answer to your question, Chair, I would say that if you actually review Hansard, you will see that this was a topic of some discussion in the House of Commons over the last two years. It's not as if this was a revelation that occurred as a result of the Auditor General's report, and indeed we were not hiding it. In fact, we were proud of it. This legacy fund, like the 28,000 other projects across the country, created jobs, created needed infrastructure, and is ultimately defensible.
So I see this as no different from many other funds that were utilized by every riding around this table and all 308 ridings in Canada.