Thank you very much for the question, sir.
With deference to my new friend who is sitting with me, we would not support the idea that suddenly a federal or a provincial government would stop contributing to the construction of roads and bridges in our community. This is a tradition that's developed over the course of some years now, obviously, and regardless of how you feel about greenhouse gases and how you think it might be combatted, the fact of the matter is, for a lot of different reasons, we need roads and bridges in our communities. Obviously people have to get around.
But there are a couple of things. I think my friend might have been talking about some reallocation and some prioritization, I'm not sure. But the MRIF program funds--strategic infrastructure funds that have long been used by municipalities, provincial government, and the federal government to fund these large-scale projects--are and will continue to be a necessity in the governmental atmosphere of Canada. At least we hope they will be. To lose those would be catastrophic for the city of Winnipeg. Cities and communities are using this funding from different levels of government to rebuild bridges so we don't see very unfortunate situations like the situation we saw in Laval not too long ago.
The window is wide open for focusing on different types of projects. Instead of focusing on interchanges in every single place in the suburbs of cosmopolitan areas, there might be a chance to reconsider that possibility and look at spending that money on more rapid transit projects. But I want to be very, very careful not to eliminate the need for those, because at its base we are paying for a lot of these projects through the gas tax program, and the concept is a very fair one, which is the user pay principle.