Excuse me? Could I just speak?
Thank you very much.
I just want to commend my mayors and my councillors in Portage--Lisgar for the great work they did with zero staff. They did it on volunteer time. I'm commending them.
But I do want to ask the minister if he could speak specifically about the fact that a year ago we really did not know what kind of impact this infrastructure spending would have. We knew what we were hoping for and we knew what our goals were, but a year later we are coming out of this recession and it's a fragile recovery.
I'm wondering if you could comment specifically on what the goals were a year ago, on how those goals have been met, and on how we can see those results now, not in a small kind of picture, but the big picture.