Thank you, Mr. Pacetti.
As chair, I just want to clarify three issues.
First of all, for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities, you talked about not having a seat at the table. I believe you mentioned that a number of times. In my province of Alberta, the municipalities very much did have a seat at the table in terms of determining where the funding would go, so can you clarify? Did the federal government not provide a seat at the table? Or was it the provincial government that did not allow the municipalities a seat at the table?