Well, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, colleagues. I'm happy to be here at finance.
I think members of this committee will find the story that I have to tell quite shocking. It is a shocking story about the rural top-up for my residents. I represent the riding of York—Simcoe, which is known as the soup and salad bowl of Canada and the ice fishing capital of Canada. It is home to the Chippewas of Georgina Island, out in the middle of Lake Simcoe. We classify ourselves and always have as rural. Believe it or not, I was travelling to Georgina Island and breaking through the ice. Because we're so rural, we actually have to take a ferry over to Georgina Island. I stood atop that ferry and took powerful binoculars—it was almost like having a telescope, believe it or not—and I could not see the CN Tower.
Why does that matter?