Mr. Peter Weltman at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On February 21st, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 21st, 2017 / 12:35 p.m.

Senior Director, Costing and Program Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Library of Parliament

I think it's two-fold.

First, we only looked at projects funded under the new budget 2016 plan: waste water and public transit. We didn't look at the other legacy programs administered by Infrastructure Canada. Some of that 700 number includes a lot of these legacy programs. The reason for that, again, is that we were trying to segregate budget 2016, the new infrastructure plan, versus some of the other stuff.

Secondly, as Infrastructure Canada gets more current reporting from provinces and municipalities, we'll be in a better position to see what's actually started on time. That's what we're going to do, too, with our revised report.

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