Transport committee  The Canada Infrastructure Bank Act was introduced in 2017. Much work has subsequently been done to create the Infrastructure Bank and bring it into force. In 2019, the first CEO was in place.

Transport committee  The second one—Ehren Cory—was announced a few weeks ago. He comes from Infrastructure Ontario.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. Within Infrastructure Canada, we use the macro accounts from Statistics Canada. That is the model for economic analysis and benefit that we use, and that is a standard methodology within the federal government.

Transport committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. For that particular question, it depends on the type of project. If we are doing a project that requires a Treasury Board submission—at this point, anything under $100 million does not require a Treasury Board submission and anything over $100 million requires us to go to Treasury Board—we need a full business case.

Transport committee  As you articulated, the integrated bilateral agreements are about national outcomes, but respecting local priority-setting. Once the integrated bilateral agreements have been signed and agreed with all provinces and territories, which for the IBAs was $33 billion, then each province and territory is creating—because there is a cost-sharing element to this—its own programs, its own intake process within its jurisdiction, and determining how that would go forward, as well as then, when it receives the projects, prioritizing which projects would be coming forward to us.

Transport committee  These are the IBAs for the $33 billion that we actually have active right now. It's our most recent program.

Transport committee  For all of our approvals in each of our streams within the integrated bilateral agreements, we actually do post them online. It's available on our website. For the integrated bilateral agreements, I have 25 projects that have been approved and announced—

Transport committee  I can ask some of the my officials to look at the exact dates. I don't have them in front of me right now. I do know that 25 have been approved and announced for $151,880,000, and so far there's been $14,000,691 claimed. That hasn't been since March 1, but it's been through the integrated bilateral agreements.

Transport committee  For the remaining ones that I did quote, some of them are from before. You're correct. They were from the first round of integrated bilateral agreements from the 2016 budget.

Transport committee  Those 25 are from the more recent one.

Transport committee  Thank you for the question, Chair. When we look at our programming right now, under the integrated bilateral agreements, where I would say the social type of infrastructure, which we have traditionally funded, is under the community, culture and recreation stream. It is an overall allocation, a national allocation of $1.3 billion.

Transport committee  To date we have approved 375 projects in Saskatchewan: 25 under the IBA; five under disaster mitigation and adaptation; and one under the smart cities challenge. Also, from budget 2016, under the public transit and infrastructure fund, there were 14. Under clean water and waste water, there were 110; innovation for climate change, eight; and asset management, 106.

Transport committee  It is not within our ministry. We certainly can follow up with colleagues to find out the status of—

Transport committee  They are Governor In Council appointees, and they are independent of ourselves, so we are not involved in those determinations, nor are we aware of the amount that would have been paid for those amounts that you've mentioned.

Transport committee  We work directly with provinces and territories on a daily basis. We have a portal we've established where provinces and territories can download much of their information from their own systems and work with us. We have a 60-day turnaround time, and in most provinces and territories we are exceeding that particular standard.