Melissa Lantsman at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

Thank you.

Thanks for joining us, Minister. I do hope you feel better and that you're back in person when you are good and ready.

I want to zero in on the departmental results report from 2020-21. The actual spending on public infrastructure was 30% below the planned spending. That's a shortfall of $2.8 billion, yet the administrative spending of the department was increased by almost the same amount. I want to know why your department is spending billions more and ostensibly achieving much less.