Government Operations committee  Yes. As I indicated earlier, it's not unusual.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely.

Government Operations committee  Again, as I pointed out earlier, and my colleague pointed out a few minutes ago, Infrastructure Canada was charged with delivering and administering the G-8 legacy fund.

Government Operations committee  Did we track signage? Signage is common. Governments of all stripes going back in time have always erected signage to demonstrate to taxpayers where the money is being spent. So the fact that we had signage is not unusual.

Government Operations committee  That's correct, but it also specifically noted on the economic action plan signs that these were “G-8 improvements”, so they were very much linked to the G-8 site. I want to just clarify one thing. There was nothing in our agreements that precluded the payment of bills prior to

Government Operations committee  Yes, I do.

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely. Thanks for this question. Obviously, the G-8 legacy fund, as we referenced a couple of times this morning here, was included as an item in the 2009 budget, which was, I believe, January 28, 2009. It is my understand that the G-20 summit location was not identifi

Government Operations committee  I'm sure there are.

Government Operations committee  We did not allocate the full $50 million. We allocated $45.3 million, I believe.

Government Operations committee  Exactly. It was included in the 2009 budget.

Government Operations committee  I imagine so.

Government Operations committee  No, it is quite different in this case. We at Infrastructure Canada are the ones who manage the program. We do not have the manpower with the projects, it is really up to the regional municipalities to make their own projects, and it is up to us, Infrastructure Canada, to approve

Government Operations committee  Yes, in a certain way. The municipalities set the priorities for their projects while we, on our part, make sure that the projects and the expenditures that they incur are eligible for the fund.

Government Operations committee  It was budget 2009.

Government Operations committee  The short answer to your question, Mr. Martin, is that these projects were not funded on a one-third, one-third, one-third basis. From a federal perspective, I believe the impetus for the decision to overfund these projects is that the Government of Canada made the decision to ho