This may be an unfair question, but I'll ask it. Do you think the Senate really understood enough about how infrastructure programs actually work? A federal government can make an announcement of x number of dollars, but then that money will be looking for projects to fund. That transaction takes place between, say, a municipality and a provincial government, so they have to come to a landing on what their priorities are. I used to work in the provincial/municipal realm, so I've had some experience with this. That has to take a little while. Then you have to have bilateral agreements wherein everybody agrees what their share is going to be—and you've seen, of course, that the share balance has shifted a little more in favour of the provinces and the municipalities here.
For the Senate to be asking this question two years into a mandate, were they asking too soon?