Again, those are good points. The criteria for the program were pretty simple. I appreciate that it had to be ready, and the other one was that a municipality or whoever was working on it could finish that in two years. We had all our partners attest that they would be able to do that. We took the attestation by our partners, by the municipalities, as the proof that the project was ready.
I believe the Auditor General—and they can elaborate on that—did say that there were numerous reasons for delays. Sometimes projects were ready, but they had a contract issue, or they had a conversation with another partner, or it could have been the discussions between a provincial government and the municipality and certain arrangements between them. It could have been something that went off...they assumed that it was ready, but something wasn't really ready. These are individual projects. There are sewer projects and water projects. Anything can go wrong in some of these things and that explains the reason for the delay.
But as much as we know—and the Canadian Federation of Municipalities has said this to us over and over again—they very much appreciated the work that at least our department has done with the municipalities and with the provincial governments, in partnership ,in getting this off the ground. We actually have results that we are showing because a number of projects are already completed, and the majority are done, and we have a number of months to go. That's the best I can tell you.
If a municipality had attested that the project was ready but it turned out not to be, I don't have an example of that, but I would say that if there were cases like that, there would be fewer than five or 10 of them, because people took this seriously.