Thank you.
My question now is for the Department of Finance. In the 2009 budget, the Minister of Finance said, “Measures to support the economy must begin within the next 120 days to be most effective”.
Yet we now see that the recently released performance report on Infrastructure Canada shows that the programs that were designed to provide stimulus did not meet the minister's own targets. For example, the government's own numbers show that in the first year only 25% of the infrastructure stimulus fund of $2 billion was spent and only 3% of the green infrastructure fund was accessed.
Did these programs not meet their objectives? Or was the minister wrong in his analysis in the budget?