Thank you for the question. I need to recognize, first of all, that there was an announcement and that a program has been created, the building Canada plan, which embeds significant new infrastructure monies through the Building Canada fund, which will help to address some of these issues, including wastewater treatment.
The FCM previously expressed to the federal government that, with regard to new regulations, we would have preferred the opportunity to have the discussion and influence the end result of that policy and that if new regulations were to be brought down requiring municipal governments to undertake these efforts, then attached funding should be made available and put in place as well. That did not happen as part of the Building Canada plan or Building Canada fund specifically, but we are able to access that funding.
At this point in time it is still uncertain when that money will become fully available to us. Negotiations between the federal government and the provinces are continuing, and the funding framework is still outstanding. Specifically here in Metro Vancouver, we are anxiously waiting, as we have a very large wastewater facility that needs upgrades to meet the 2020 deadline as set out by the federal government. This is an ongoing issue, which is why it's important for us as local government to have initiatives like this—and we're talking about solid waste—which in turn will save us all money, which we can redirect to things like wastewater treatment itself.