Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to follow up on some of the things that Pat Martin discussed in his rant.
He talked about the political nature of this framework. While he talked specifically about the punishment that voters were receiving as a result of having elected certain members of Parliament, I thought it was important to mention the folks of Halifax, who feel very punished after having received $18.3 million for an initiative in their riding. We have the folks from Skeena--Bulkley Valley, who also elected an NDP member, and they have received $130 million in a single investment in that riding. We also have the folks in Toronto, who have received over $600 million for specific subway extensions. We have another investment in Toronto that actually, Madam Chair, goes through your riding; it's an investment of over $300 million for an extension of a rail line. I think it's important that a million dollars--