No, no, I fully understand that now, exactly as you said. Nobody would disagree with that, nor would they disagree with the other motions that were put forward and then passed, in some cases, to put all kinds of money into everybody's budget. You have to realize there's only so much money to go around. Once you get your budget, you have certain priorities within your own department.
I say to you, Mr. MacAulay, that one of the problems we have, if you want to talk about the pressures on the new government and my department to move forward, is that we're in the mess we're in because for years enough funding didn't go into that. It's not only the former government. It goes well beyond that. Wharves were let to deteriorate to the point where it'll take $400 million to bring them up to par.
We have to deal with what we have and use every cent we can get our hands on to move forward. If we can get an extra $15 million or if we can get an extra $50 million, we can spend it overnight. You could spend that much in your own province and it wouldn't put a dent in what needs to be done, as you know.