I have to tell you, Mr. Chair, I think this is nothing short of a witch hunt and, quite frankly, very humorous. I've never met Mr. Langdon; I don't know Mr. Langdon.
Landon? I'm sorry; it shows you I haven't met Mr. Landon. You refer to him as a colleague, but as I say, I've never met him. I've been with the infrastructure department since we came into government. I've been the parliamentary secretary for four years and I have a pretty good idea of the practices, so maybe I would be a better witness, but I'm not going to stand there either.
Mr. Landon, I would suggest, knows nothing about it, and it is a witch hunt, and you're trying to politicize another situation. Quite frankly, I find it a little bit repugnant. As I said, I've been here for four years as the parliamentary secretary and have worked with all parties.
In fact, I'd like to say that the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Minister Baird, gave me the ability to administer and research and manage a particular fund, that being the green infrastructure fund. We've actually been fortunate enough to announce two projects, one to an NDP riding and one to a Liberal riding. I can give you the amounts: $137 million to the Northwest Transmission Line, taking a huge amount of greenhouse gases off; and $71 million to Mayo B, in a Liberal riding in the Yukon, which takes five communities off diesel and saves taxpayers $8 million a year in transportation costs of diesel. No money has gone to a Conservative riding yet under that particular fund.
So I think you're wrong, frankly, and to put it quite bluntly. Knowing what's happening with infrastructure and the communities component of this portfolio, you're just incorrect. I don't think Mr. Landon has anything to add. He's a private citizen. He's no longer a Conservative candidate, and I think he would offer nothing except for a little dance and a jig and maybe some help in some newspaper reporting.