I guess we've learned the difference between an expenditure and an allocation, though I'm not sure it matters much to my constituents. Vote 35 has been very important to my riding of Oakville. My announcements are all based on the allocation and the beginning of the implementation. We've announced $54 million in much-needed projects in Oakville, which, matching funds with the province and the town, will be about $162 million to help create jobs. There's $15 million just for students in Oakville, for a new campus in Mississauga to expand Sheridan College; $15.2 million will go to create 1,000 parking spaces at the Go Transit, which is about 12 years overdue; $8.3 million will give the homes in west Oakville a new waste water treatment plant to replace one that was built in the 1950s. All told, there are hundreds of people, maybe thousands, who are going to get work out of all this economic activity.
So I guess I'm going to have a little trouble going back and explaining to them whether it's an allocation or an expenditure. But as long as the money flows, they won't mind. The talk that has been going on with the leader of the official opposition this week is pretty stressful for them. I'm hoping that everything goes well on Friday and the opposition members vote to proceed and do what's happening in Oakville right across Canada.
I would like to ask Mr. Monette how many person-hours of work or full-time equivalents it would take to produce these weekly reports if this motion were properly worded and it said “supported by” instead of whatever it says? What might that cost?