Thank you.
I will be sharing my time with Mr. Jean.
I represent a riding where there are probably about 50 small towns and small cities and every single mayor, reeve, and councillor in that riding is a volunteer. They work full time and they have one staff member, and I can tell you that they were thrilled and very pleased with the process of applying for these projects.
They got it done because they wanted to see their communities supported. They've seen a lot of red tape and a lot of paperwork in probably the last 13 or 14 years, when they could not get funding, so they--