Transport committee  Thank you very much. I come from a riding that's the size of France, and I have 22 first nations that live in isolation. They don't have roads. I'm very interested in this whole concept of what's beneficial, what we used to call, years ago, “nation-building”. Diefenbaker used to

Transport committee  The only criticism I would have, Mr. Bartlett, of what you've been saying all day is that you're comparing such small entities of countries that would fit into my riding three or four times over. When you talk about Wales or New Zealand, I can't get my head around how you can com

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm not one of those people who's as worried about delays and/or stimulus. I think infrastructure development as a nation is a time-consuming process that increases productivity over generations. Since my time in Parliament, beginning in the 1980s, we hav

Transport committee  On the other side, I come from the north. The best time to do infrastructure projects from your perspective would be in the winter when the economy is slow, but of course that's not possible. When you do your analysis as an accountant, do you base that on Canada's weather patte