I'm going to echo what Tim said on this notion of transparency. We think in a lot of cases decisions are getting made. I think the stimulus spending money was spent in very specific ways because there was a very specific set of needs that needed to happen relatively immediately. You could call those political or you could say there was an economic need at a moment in time. To our mind, we'd love to see a few different criteria introduced to hopefully the next version of Building Canada, but at the end of the day I really agree with Tim on this one, that this notion of transparency around the rationale for decision-making can probably go a heck of a long way to assuaging some of those concerns or considerations. That's something that could be usefully done without being too prescriptive.
On October 17th, 2011. See this statement in context.