To go back to the points I made in my presentation, there are about five different ways in which the federal government could be very helpful in bringing about more compact, less car reliant, and more energy efficient cities and communities. It could take place in a variety of ways for big cities and medium and smaller rural communities.
If the federal government--for example, through your report--encourages the integrated approach that we're talking about with QUEST...and you've heard from our colleagues from NRCan. If you can build into the investments that are being made right now to get people back to work, the shovel-in-the-ground investments over the next 120 days, making sure that they're green infrastructure projects as much as possible, that they're into sustainable cities and communities strategies, and that energy, in an integrated way, is incorporated in your technology, program, and infrastructure investments, then that is a very significant amount of funding already going to municipalities through agreements that have been signed by the national government, provinces, and municipalities throughout this country.