That's an excellent question. Thank you for that and the chance to respond.
The infrastructure deficit in our country is such that if we want to build long-run assets, new transmission across our country, new forms of clean energy across our country, such as my electric vehicle charging example that I gave to the member opposite earlier, those projects all face uncertainty or risk gaps that stop the private sector from moving forward today. As Canadians, I think the exact purpose of an infrastructure bank is to help bridge that gap—not to provide an outsized benefit to the private sector in any way, shape, or form, but to help bridge the gap.
To use the Lake Erie example, that project was estimated to create significant public benefit in the form of GHG emission reductions on both sides of the border. The benefit therefore of advancing the project without having to do it under a purely public model and by having some private sector money beside ours was to move it forward faster and to get that public benefit. Infrastructure is—