Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up on a few of the questions to our finance department officials. I am concerned that some of the questions might have obscured some of the successes of this economic stimulus. I notice that a lot of the people cheering from the sidelines and watching the budget were from our municipalities. To hear this complaint that municipalities are going to have to contribute a cost I think misrepresents what's occurred in Canada over the last twenty years.
My first question is about infrastructure programs. In the 1990s, when we had a slowdown, and more recently under the previous Liberal government, we had infrastructure programs. Was it not a staple arrangement for federal infrastructure investments that there'd be other governments involved--municipal and provincial?