Thanks for the question.
What I'm basing it on is that CPRA represents the directors of recreation and parks across Canada in the municipalities. One of the challenges with being within the gas tax fund, and why I say a dedicated fund is needed—and the government recently included this as a category in the new Building Canada fund—is that we're competing in the gas tax against 16 other categories of infrastructure.
All I can speak to is from the experience that my members speak about. When a municipality needs to choose between roads, water, sewers, a new track, a new trail, or a new pool, often they tell me that we were trumped by those other categories. That's why we're seeking the dedicated fund.
I know the practice has been to allow municipalities and communities to set their own priorities, but what we are looking for here is federal leadership on healthy Canadians and active Canadians. To do that, we do need that federal direction.