No, I'm not his boss. The Prime Minister is his boss, and his electors are his boss.
Fundamentally, I'd say that other than the initiatives that are in the budget--and we're talking about the $1.3 billion fund that was set up to aid urban transit projects--there is a series of other projects that are taking place. I'm thinking of the Canada Line, and the projects in Toronto, in Yorkville. Last week, as a matter of fact, I was at the Unionville station with the GO Train authorities, and we were able to announce the grade of a number of projects along that line...bringing them up to grade, I should say.
As you know, I come from a milieu where we have for a long time pushed for urban transit. On the weekend I had the opportunity of going to the Canadian Urban Transit Association's meeting in Saskatoon to reiterate once again this government's commitment to not only work with these people, but also at the same time push projects of urban transit.
Montreal has projects. I've had the opportunity of meeting Mayor Tremblay.
This morning I had the opportunity of meeting with Mayor Sullivan from Vancouver, and we discussed a series of issues. A lot of them, of course, pertain to dealing with 2010 and how the government can help in that direction.
Coming back to our fundamental approach, our fundamental approach and vision is that we strongly believe that urban transit is a must. It alleviates enormous amounts of congestion. We were in Toronto not long ago, where we tabled the first report on the estimated cost of congestion in this country. It's in the billions of dollars.
All parliamentarians have to be able to come around to help shore up our infrastructure to permit Canadians to freely go where they want to go--to continue not only with the sustainable part of it, but also to expedite our services and our goods that way, through that means.