It would be. Many projects are ready to go. In my home region I'm the vice-chair of metro Vancouver. We have a $700-million secondary waste-water treatment plant that needs some assurance of funding, whether it be federal and hopefully provincial as well. But it goes to our having the tools and accessing the financing that's made available. That's why we're advocating for a better financing formula, one where we're guaranteed, or have the confidence, that the funding is available to us, rather than going through an application-based project.
Rural communities need to understand more money is available. We're advocating for a doubling of the small communities fund and reallocating of some of the previous new building Canada fund to make it more accessible to the local government. Given that we only received 8¢ to 10¢ of every tax dollar, and have 60% for the infrastructure, it's impossible for us to implement some of these programs and projects that are shovel-ready and shovel-worthy.