I'm going to start with Mr. Fortin. You talked about your work with municipalities, and asset management plans, and developing those plans. I think it's extremely important that we do those, because all municipalities need to be prepared. Having been a municipal politician as well, I think that one of the problems we might be running into with the federal gas tax fund, or various different municipal infrastructure funding that comes from other levels of government, is that municipalities start to become dependent on it, and they're not planning their own asset management.
In the City of Kingston, in 1997, we introduced a 1% tax increase annually to build a pool of money for the purpose of infrastructure renewal. We, in Kingston, had started to develop an asset management plan well in advance of needing the particular assets. One of the concerns we always had about doing that was that being responsible and not having this dire-straits need at the last minute meant that we might not be taken as seriously when applying for infrastructure funding. I'm curious if you could comment on that and what the department's position would be on how you approach municipalities that do have these plans versus municipalities that don't.