Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm not one of those people who's as worried about delays and/or stimulus. I think infrastructure development as a nation is a time-consuming process that increases productivity over generations. Since my time in Parliament, beginning in the 1980s, we have moved to put a lot of federal infrastructure dollars into the hands of municipalities and provincial governments, but in that time, we've never changed the system of how we deal with risk.
We continue to suggest that we have to have three sets of accounting, which of course is partially the rationale for delays. More interestingly, since you're now in this business of making sure it has a stimulus effect on the economy, have you ever done an historical analysis of what benefits it has productivity-wise for Canada since Canada has become a big player on the infrastructure side?