Yes, you are absolutely right, Mr. Laframboise. The municipalities have always been the government's partners. I regularly recall with great satisfaction the fact that the federal and provincial governments finally understood that there was a problem with our infrastructure and created programs to deal with it. These programs are often difficult to manage and do not necessarily reflect our scheduling needs; instead, they consider principles. That being said, what you have described does reflect the current reality: municipalities agreed in good faith to participate in an economic stimulus plan, encountered difficulties along the way, and will now end up bearing the burden on their own, something which I consider to be completely unfair to the partners who are doing this work, and without which, no work would have gone ahead.
