Mr. Jean should check the committee roster. I'm not a member of the committee.
Again, I would just say to the members here, here's what the Parliamentary Budget Officer said about this government's performance. He said that even though 63% of your municipalities wanted to get their projects under way by September 15--63% requested that--only 12.8% actually got under way.
That's the big difference between what the government says, and even pays for advertising for, and what actually happened. Only 3% of the money flowed to British Columbia, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, by that time, by the middle of September. That's according to the department's own data, released publicly, whereas around 45% of your members wanted to start their projects.
So the point here is that if you want to talk about being timely--you can get a lecture from Ms. Brown--timely did not happen from the government. It said in fact that the projects should have been started, with shovels in the ground, by May. They didn't reach their own target and they're passing the deadline on to you. Neither did they target in the sense of looking for places that needed help or that could use the extra construction. In fact, they went first to partisan ridings, until we caught them at it, and then they corrected somewhat in B.C., although there's still a very significant difference there.