I am very interested in your testimony. In fact, I came here and was a bit surprised. I'm from Fort McMurray, and we have about 60,000 to 70,000 car movements a day that go 30 kilometres, taking two hours to do so. Of course, that is to keep the oil sands going and the economy, and it's about 10% of the GDP of the country that is created by those 80,000 movements—I'm not sure if you knew that—going across three bridges that are all paid for by the Alberta government.
I'm just curious. There are five bridges owned by the federal government, all of them attached to Quebec. One is the Champlain Bridge, and there are other bridges across Canada that have, for instance, tolls. There is one in British Columbia that actually was a P3. It was very successful and they paid it off quite early.
Why should the federal government invest in your bridge, the Champlain Bridge—and I understand the ownership issue—and not worry about all these other things that are going on across Canada, as, for instance, in my community where people have to wait three or four hours a day to go to work and to come back after working a 12-hour shift?
That's what I have to explain to my constituents and, believe me, some are from Quebec. About 6,000 Quebeckers live in my riding. In fact, when I moved in there were only 1,600 people and now there are about 180,000 people from across Canada who live in that area, including in camps. They all ask me why the federal government can't put in another bridge or another highway so that they don't have to sit in lineups going five kilometres an hour for two hours a day.