No, I was working for the Ministry of Finance when the 407 was started. The rationale for that was clearly off-book accounting. They went the P3 route because they didn't want to show up the debt. I have to admit that. That was the case.
Public accounting standards have changed since then, and rationales for P3s have also changed since then. At that point, the 407 was not my file, but I probably got more calls from the private sector from people interested in getting the project than anything else, so that was kind of interesting.