It's a really good question. As interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, I am not particularly well placed to answer it from a government-wide perspective. There's something that we do mention in the report and that definitely jumped out to us. We've been tracking infrastructure spending across government since 2016, when the federal government made a big push to increase spending and infrastructure spending writ large and spread it out across various departments. A recurring theme is that it's exceptionally challenging and very difficult to actually pull all the data together. Unfortunately, it continues to be the case.
That's the first thing, if one was looking for an opportunity to actually fix, improve, the area of infrastructure spending across the federal government. Simply keeping track of it in a better way would be useful for everyone. As well, linking to the previous question with respect to the presentation of operating and capital budgets, infrastructure spending and these transfers are payments that go out to other levels of government. It's not traditional capital spending on federal assets. Conceivably, you would want to incorporate it as part of your capital budget. If you're not tracking it, if the government is not tracking it, it's going to be really hard to actually do that. That's probably one of the key challenges that the government and the public service is going to face.