I'm going to answer this carefully.
I think our members are quite happy to pay taxes when they feel they're getting value out of those taxes. They don't want to pay too much, and they don't want taxes going to things that don't benefit our quality of life here in Canada. However, they are also businesses and they have overhead operating to think about.
We're saying that infrastructure is one of the things government does at all three levels. Government is involved in education and health care. These are some of the core businesses of government. The problem we face with these one-time programs is that, time and again, the funding cap comes on and then it goes off. It makes it difficult to plan assets that have 100-year design life. It's hard to leverage long-term strategic investment to get the best return on investment.
I take your point—you have a real problem. But the Province of Ontario allowed the Ministry of Transportation to amortize costs of similar capital projects so they could get done. For those of us who run a business, that's a perfectly responsible way to deal with your finances.