Again, if you do choose and select your statistics and your timelines, you can get any answer you want.
In 2008-09, I believe it was budget 2009, we had 4.9 billion in additional dollars. While I know some people would want us to continue to spend that kind of money, we don't have a carbon tax coming up. That was stimulus funding from a temporary two-year stimulus program, as you recall.
I'm sure you will recall that the government came forward with a fairly aggressive and quick stimulus program. It included billions of dollars for infrastructure, and $2 billion was for infrastructure for science, research capacity, at our universities and colleges.
While we completed some 550 projects, highly successful, the vast majority on time and on budget, there was no need to continue that program, as these were temporary stimulus programs.
With all due respect to my honourable colleague, if you're going to take the year after all of those programs ended, you should see a decline. We made the commitment to temporarily stimulate the economy. We did, and those programs, or most of them, ended.