The figures we're using to illustrate the delay are compiled by the ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire. They probably include both municipalities that are members of our association and members of the UQM. However, we don't have an exhaustive, municipality by municipality list, because the information is not always available. I did a little survey around where I am. In the riding of Roberval alone, at least $5 or $10 million is currently in jeopardy for certain projects. Those figures affect five or six municipalities. Across Quebec, you can imagine the extent of the disaster we are expecting.
Once again, I would say that this program is a good illustration of the desire to participate in upgrading our infrastructure. The extent to which Quebec and even Canada needed to catch up, in terms of infrastructure, probably extends beyond the period of this program. You may say that this is another discussion, but the fact that everybody was asked to complete the projects within the same very tight deadline is creating overheating and an explosion in costs. This explains in large part the lack of capacity to complete projects that the municipalities are facing.
On that point, we have many examples. In my own municipality, the cost of a project has risen by 53% over projections. That is unacceptable. These situations are occurring just as much in Roberval and in Saint-Félicien or Dolbeau. We are all collectively having to deal with this problem, which came out of thin air. At the start of the program, we asked that we be given more time, to avoid overheating in the sector, but we were told the situation was in hand. Today, we see that not much is in hand. In the worst case scenario, we are going to lose important infrastructure projects, projects that are necessary.