Jacques Gourde at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On April 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.

April 2nd, 2009 / 12:35 p.m.

Conservative

Jacques Gourde Conservative Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I'm going to ask a very simple question in order to understand the mechanism used to transfer this money.

Suppose that funding of a provincial or municipal infrastructure project is based on a sharing formula of one-third, one-third, one-third. The city is ready to go ahead immediately with a project to repair its water and sewer system. If the project costs some $30 million, the federal government will give $10 million to the Province of Quebec, which in turn will redistribute it to the municipality.

How does this all work? Are funds allocated immediately to a province or are they only disbursed at the end of a project?

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