Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ministers, for joining us.
I'm saying this because I don't want you to think I'm boycotting you, but I'm going to have to leave before the end of the meeting to speak in the House. I certainly agree with you about the Windsor bridge. I think it's pretty shocking that it's taken us so many years to get this thing done. But I'm not going to agree with you on everything.
I remember Jim Flaherty in his budget saying that to be effective, infrastructure had to be out the door within 100 days. If we look back at last year, for which we now have data, last year was the peak of the recession, the peak of the unemployment and the financial crisis, when money was needed most, yet the figures indicate that only 25% of the money allocated for the infrastructure stimulus fund was actually spent, and a pathetic 3% of the green infrastructure fund. This was in the year that was the peak of the crisis, when the money was needed most. So why was this?