The building Canada fund I think allocates $200 million in 2014, if I'm not mistaken. But that only speaks to the amount of money that Ottawa would expect to send out of Ottawa in the form of a cheque.
We believe that this is a vast overstatement of what will actually occur, and that very little will be spent in the first year. Even though our target would be that around $1 billion of projects would be approved in that first year—or more—it will take years for the receipts to actually make their way back to Ottawa.
What we're telling our members is that we believe the new building Canada fund is in fact increasing existing investment levels above the current building Canada plan, which of course is good news, and that the line item in the budget is really reflective more of Ottawa's accounting practices than of the objectives of the department.
As I said earlier, the investment plan by Infrastructure Canada will have to be.... We'll soon be advocating for a more transparent approach to their plans for how quickly they plan to invest each dollar. That means not looking at the cheques leaving Ottawa, but looking at how much they'll approve in projects each year, which is different.
Right now, we're telling our members that it should be full steam ahead, according to the past practices.