Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ministers, first please allow me to greet your new deputy minister and your new associate deputy minister. These are people of very high integrity who have served their country very well. I am pleased to see that they are with you. This will give you more help and I imagine it will be good for the future.
I have a few questions about infrastructure. We often talk about transportation, but infrastructure is in a way its poor cousin; so I would like us to talk mainly about that today.
The money allocated to infrastructure funding has not all been spent. However, you are requesting supplementary funding. Why has that money, some $130 million, not been spent? Why request supplementary funding when you are unable to spend the money already available to you?