Hey it's only $1 B of money that Canadian families worked very hard for.  Since when does our government shy away from spending other people's money?  If it was your money, you'd be looking very carefully at the outcomes of your investment (ie measuring) in order to learn and improve for next time, but that would be way too much to ask the government.  And since when is their focus on doing something good for Canadians?  The government is too busy making trade deals that sell off our assets, sovereignty and quality of life and they're too busy focusing on giving away billions to other countries so that they have a better life.  If you haven't had enough yet folks, maybe it's high time for you to start thinking about what's been going on for a long time now.  By any measure that you can think of, we are not doing well.