Mr. Mayor, infrastructure is extremely important to the municipalities. You referenced the gas tax, which basically transfers from the Government of Canada to the municipalities with very few strings attached. You can plan it out and spend it over a period of time.
On the infrastructure agreement, I want your opinion on this. In all the provinces, the current agreement that is coming to an end is delivered primarily and I'd say exclusively by the provinces. Here in Prince Edward Island, the Government of Canada does not directly administer the infrastructure program, so the rollout, the evaluation and the critique of all applications coming in come through the provincial infrastructure secretariat. We only see it when they do their due diligence and critique and forward it to Ottawa. Sometimes we, at the federal level, get a little frustrated with the process, but it has worked relatively well.
Are you telling the committee here—this is what I want your opinion on—that as we go forward with replacing the current infrastructure agreement, as it relates to municipalities, it's very important that municipalities still have access to that infrastructure fund and the ability of the federal government to make decisions on it?