Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll tackle a few things quickly.
First, I appreciate the member's question.
Let me be very clear on people. As of today, we have precisely 74 employees at the bank. I rounded it to 80 employees, but we have 74 employees. About 30% of them, 23 employees, are qualified as fully bilingual. That includes a team we have based in Montreal. We have folks in Montreal, Toronto and Calgary. In Montreal, we have a dedicated team who work on investments in the province. Those are our bilingual statistics, so thank you for the chance to answer that question.
On our activity, I would only say to the member that I joined the organization four months ago because I believe very much in the opportunity to be part of the way that we close the long-term infrastructure gap. As I said, we're not at all the only country in the world to move in this direction. A number of leading jurisdictions think there is a way to expand the universe of infrastructure projects.
In terms of the Government of Canada, it is actually something that has been tried before and something that I believe in the long-term potential of. I think we're absolutely headed in the right direction. I'm really proud of the progress we have made in the last few months since I joined.
To answer Ms. Jaczek's question of a few moments ago, the growth plan is our attempt at doing some of the shorter-term, more pragmatic investments that go from idea to dollars out the door quickly. That's track one. For track two, we have our longer-term, more substantial, transformational type of projects that we also continue to pursue.