Through the chair, very quickly, there are four things I heard in Niagara Falls with 2,000 mayors and councillors in June at the annual FCM convention.
Number one, they do not agree with the new Building Canada fund's eliminating roads. You can't have a road project and have it funded.
Two, they completely disagree with not being allowed to use the transfer of the gas tax to your municipality to lever applications for other Building Canada projects. They don't understand where that came from.
Three, it is back-loaded, and there is significant frustration with that.
And four, most municipalities don't want to be told what the mandatory P3 screen is going to tell them. They want to be able to, if they choose to, not to mortgage debt into the future but to borrow more cheaply. For those municipalities with tax room to borrow, there couldn't be a better time for Canadian cities to borrow. They think that should be a decision that they want to make.