Ministers, it is a pleasure to see you both.
I'm going to challenge you that it was anything but quick, because when you look at the supplementary estimates (C), and you look across the suite of infrastructure programs, it was anything but swift or timely.
On the infrastructure stimulus fund, 44% wasn't delivered. That is $850 million unspent of $2 billion. When you look at the communities component of Building Canada, 48% wasn't delivered. That is $135 million of $250 million. On provincial-territorial-based funding, 48% wasn't delivered. That's $240 million unspent of $495 million. Of the green infrastructure fund, 93% wasn't delivered in the fiscal.... That's $186 million unspent of $200 million. So it wasn't timely. In fact, there was a lapse of $1.4 billion, and that was a lost opportunity to create approximately 30,000 jobs.
In fact, the economic action plan promised to create 190,000 jobs. What we see is, “It's coming”. There was a net loss of 300,000 jobs in this recession. Yet you are taking credit for it. Can you explain it to us? Can you admit that you failed to deliver on your commitment in budget 2009? When you are suggesting, especially, that 300,000 Canadians have lost their jobs since the recession hit, you should simply--