Public Accounts committee  Basically it was an allocation across the country on a per capita basis. That's what we did.

Public Accounts committee  Defined timelines definitely helped, but also, the country—well, the whole world—was in serious recession, and the anxiety around that actually brought about a lot of concrete action.

Public Accounts committee  I see a number of things. I think that Infrastructure Canada very much appreciated the fact that all of the approvals by the central agencies were expedited. They may want to comment on that. There were policy approvals and approvals through Treasury Board. The Auditor General

Public Accounts committee  First, I just want to make a comment. The Environmental Assessment Act was not suspended. Let me just park that, because you didn't ask that, but with that comment I had to clarify. First of all, I think for the sample size, yes, it looks like a big number. The Auditor General p

Public Accounts committee  In terms of our internal audit shop, they did four things. One was the readiness assessment, which I mentioned earlier, which basically was, “Are you ready with your programs?” The second thing they did is something called process mapping. It sounds technical, but basically it

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure if we have data down to the municipality level, but we definitely can get you the data. Just to recognize the mayor, yes, absolutely this mayor is very well known to us and greatly appreciated. But that is just one example. Our experience has been phenomenal across

Public Accounts committee  First of all, the program is ending. It was always meant to be timely and targeted, so the March 31 deadline is coming soon. If there is any money left, it would usually be because a province or a municipality wants to swap a project--for example, if a project is no longer a prio

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the comments. I must say it's been an honour for me, Mr. Forster, and all of our team that we got to work on something very important for the Canadian economy. It has been an honour, and yes, it was hard work, but we're very happy that we had the opportuni

Public Accounts committee  Again, those are good points. The criteria for the program were pretty simple. I appreciate that it had to be ready, and the other one was that a municipality or whoever was working on it could finish that in two years. We had all our partners attest that they would be able to do

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. First of all, on the actual money spent, the expenditures, as we say in our departmental performance report--I believe on page 23--we identify that this is probably not the best measure of economic activity in all infrastructure programs, either current programs or pa

Public Accounts committee  Sir, since the beginning of the economic action plan, we have approved 6,200 projects. We are getting updates. We have a number of projects that are reporting. Out of the reported projects, around 99% of them are either under way or complete. There is a small number of projects

Public Accounts committee  Do we have the exact number?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. First of all, our congratulations to you, as our former transport critic, on your appointment to the chairmanship of this committee. While we will miss you on SCOTIC in having long discussions about automobile pedals, we're very pleased that yo

Public Accounts committee  You already mentioned his name, Mr. Chairman.

Transport committee  You asked us to have a review of it and it will be done.