I think the federal government has a strong role to play in investing in infrastructure under its jurisdiction. I would never quarrel with that. The topic of the federal government's spending in areas of provincial jurisdiction came up earlier. One of the things that does concern me is the federal government's expanding of its fiscal footprint. It is both crowding out the future revenue sources that the provinces might need and also exposing them to the cutbacks that may well occur at some point in the future when the federal government feels itself to be a little fiscally overextended, with interest payments growing and so on.
Having been a provincial finance minister, you know what it's like seeing the federal government not come through with the money you were expecting, or finding out that you are constrained in raising the revenues that you needed as a result of the federal government's already being in the field.
I would like to see the federal government spending smarter, and in a more focused way, because the provinces, in the long run, are the ones that are carrying the can when it comes to health care and many of the other infrastructure needs that the country has, so each in its lane.