Her husband dragged me out once in the truck into one of the fields they were foresting and threatened to leave me out there. Luckily, he took me back.
I have a question probably for both of you, in the sense that I can view my position as a federal member of Parliament and what my responsibilities are; I have a kind of understanding of those. I see the same as a former member of city council in St. Catharines; you have those same types of responsibilities with respect to your municipalities. I wouldn't expect you to come here doing anything other than representing and trying to work on behalf of both of your municipalities.
The difficulty I have is that I can't think of a municipal councillor or a municipal mayor who wouldn't come here making the same types of requests that you are making. I wonder whether you could add a note to both your comments, putting yourselves in our position as federal representatives versus municipal representatives.
Our ability to assist comes with a significant price. We've invested heavily, in all three of our budgets, with respect to infrastructure, with respect to education, with respect certainly to the component—in this budget, for example, of $250 million—for automotive R and D.
I'd ask you, in the light of that, to comment in that perspective rather than the one you come here with, given your responsibilities.