Mr. Chair, as the Members are aware, we had a very busy year this year working on the Building Canada Fund, first of all to sit down and negotiate with our federal counterparts the framework agreement that spells out the different areas that would be considered for investment and the different issues that we’d have to negotiate. Following that, we did come to a successful conclusion on the dollar amount and the criteria areas that would be considered for investment. We also put together the listing of projects that would be brought forward for consideration and negotiation with the federal government and the management committee. For ’08–09 we did have that concluded.

We have now submitted the second year’s listing of investments, and we are waiting for a response from the federal government. We’ll have some discussion on that with the management

committee. We are now in the process of firming up future projects and areas that this government would like to consider for investment in the areas of transportation infrastructure and also municipal infrastructure. We did provide one briefing to the Members to give us a status report and an update of where we are. We are now evaluating projects within the Department of Transportation, and the municipal governments are also doing the same. We are compiling a list.

As things move forward, we are also expecting that we will be looking at a response from the committees to hear what their recommendations are. We also expect to have that firmed up sometime over the next while and to be able to move forward with that.