First of all, I'm pleased to be here and to have the opportunity of conversing and exchanging with you, Madam Hall Findlay.
I'll just point out that you're alluding to the capital trust fund that we put forward, $500 million that was extended across the country on a pro rata basis based on population. The share for Ontario is an amount of money that will be directed to the Peterborough line. What we've agreed to with the Province of Ontario is that a joint study will be undertaken to be able to maximize the data and get the information.
We as a government have committed to put our share of money for that project. We feel that as the Golden Horseshoe area of Greater Toronto expands, there is an increasing requirement to support and foster both intercity transportation and urban transit. In that vein, it's important that we celebrate the amount of money--$500 million across the country--to be able to do that.
It's a budgetary item. We've set up the capital trust. The deputy has worked very hard to set the capital trusts up across the country, and I can report back that all of them have been signed. All of them have been agreed to, and we are going to move forward with the spending of that money.