I'm glad you mentioned the infrastructure piece, because that's so important in the area that I represent. We'll never get investment if we don't improve our transportation infrastructure.
Mr. Wallace, I want to quickly ask you a few things. I was really glad to hear some of the comments you made about the area that you worked in. For a while, I thought you were talking about the Northwest Territories or the whole north, because we seem to share a lot of the issues that you flagged.
One of the things I've really worked hard on bringing to the government's attention is the idea of rural and remote communities, areas that are challenged by some of the programs we've seen announced historically where there's money announced, but it's based on per capita. It doesn't reflect some of the challenges we have in terms of remoteness and the high costs in the different parts of this country we live in. We also seem to have the challenge of trying to get flexibility from the money that is announced.
Could you talk about some of the benefits that we'd see if we had base-plus funding and flexibility in some of the funding programs we have coming forward?