I didn't write down all the comments that you made, so you'll have to help me a little bit.
I'll start with the long-term infrastructure plan. That has been the latest piece. This last week, as you indicated, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities had its board meeting here in Ottawa and that's when we speak to members of Parliament about our various issues.
The gas tax was one of the big things we had spoken about long and hard in the last federal budget, because the build Canada plan and a couple of other programs are ending very shortly, and the gas tax, of course. With that, the federal government had promised there would be discussion with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities when the federal budget came through, particularly in relation to the long-term infrastructure plan. I'm sure you are all aware that our bridges are falling down and the roads aren't all being done and the green infrastructure comes into play there as well, many of the things that we deal with as municipal governments.
Those are issues that we certainly have been working on. We have been working with the federal government. We have been trying to work together. The federal government said that it would work with us. Again, we all know that infrastructure is the wealth of this country and it is getting old and it isn't being kept up enough. We simply don't have the resources as municipal governments to do it all ourselves. We really don't. We need partnerships. We need partnerships with provincial governments, the federal government, and municipal governments in everything we do.
For the infrastructure, as you said, we're looking to have the gas tax indexed. That's one thing. There's the building Canada fund. We want to work with you so that we can work collaboratively for the entire country, with the municipal governments, the federal government, and provincial governments as well. It's very important that all three orders of government work together on all the things that are done on the infrastructure. We need to keep our country going and to create the wealth that we have. We simply can't do it ourselves. The federal government needs the other orders of government as well, so we all need to work together.
I don't know if that answers your question.