Minister Sohi made a point of this, and I met with his staff as well and we relayed the concern that there has to be more discretionary authority at the local level because they understand their needs more than the federal government, where it becomes a bit of a macro play. I very much echo your sentiments.
We recognize that phase one funding wasn't available to small cities because the criteria were transit and ridership numbers. Obviously, small cities wouldn't qualify for that. We really will take your comments here seriously.
One things I have been very surprised by in western Canada is that nobody is talking about pipelines, which seem to dominate the debate in Ottawa. That's a take-away point for me.