Mr. Rehn said he expected finance ministers meeting on Tuesday evening "to support this objective".
A Reuters report (carried by Mail Online) said: "Many analysts had expected finance director Stephen Daintith to get the top job".
It's a sentiment echoed by Perl, although he cautions that a public-private partnership the expected financing route for the Ontario line will likely result in higher costs to the public compared to using low-interest government borrowing.
What they can do, however, is establish direct contact with national statistical services for their findings, rather than expect finance ministers who are politicians to hand them reliable information.
A Thomson Reuters-University of Michigan survey found that Americans' expectations about the economy were the lowest in three decades and that only 17 percent of those surveyed expected their finances to improve.
In particular, they cite a controversy in the 1950s and 1960s about the usefulness of elicited verbal assessments of expected consumer finances in the Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances conducted by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center.
We had expected to finance much of this project, then all of a sudden it was much less financing, and so a lot of equity had to go in.
Should taxpayers be expected to finance stadiums for professional teams?
That money is expected to finance legal aid programs, housing counselors and other borrower support.
But the expected Chinese financing for the venture has yet to materialize.
