Thank you, colleague, for your question.
I think I'd respond with two answers to this. First, Budget 2006 developed a $16.5 billion component for infrastructure of all sorts. As we speak now, and as I mentioned to Ms. Chow before, we are in the midst of gathering our thoughts following, of course, the consultations that we led last summer with the provinces and territories, that we led with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and with different stakeholders from across the country to be able to give us advice and guidance in terms of where we should be going and how we should be doing it. That is an ongoing process.
There was, of course, another element to that. Coming from the municipal sector, I was extremely preoccupied by long-term funding from the gas tax. You'll recall that during Minister Flaherty's speech on the budget he indicated that he wanted to look at that issue. He wanted to look at that issue very closely. That is another objective we're pursuing. We want to be able to make sure that municipalities that are in need for either retrofitting some of their infrastructure or making sure they go forward with infrastructure projects will have a sufficient amount of money to be able to complete the project, one, but also be able to fund it.
So those are two general directions that we are taking in terms of where we want to go with infrastructure funding and with infrastructure projects in the country.