Mr. Minister, The Globe and Mail today said that your government is going to roll out a major plan to fund key public projects across the country that will hand a very central role to the private sector. You're going to place private partnerships at the centre of funding arrangements. Are future infrastructure funds that are to be transferred to municipalities and communities to be tied to partnerships that have often proven more expensive and not always successful? Would you confirm here today that future funding programs will not be conditional on such an unproven mechanism?
On November 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.