In last year's budget the government announced that we will be doing a consultation process and a long-term planned development process for the future of infrastructure. This was three years ahead of the sunsetting of all the programs in 2014. This gives us the opportunity to work with all our partners to determine the future needs of the country and what can be done to meet them.
The consultation is in three stages. Phase one looks at what have we done—“we” means the municipalities, the provinces, and the federal government. It's what has been achieved. Phase two asks where we go from here: what the future will look like. Phase three is detailed programming directed at how to do the things that need to be done, and how to pay for these things. One of the honourable members was talking about the infrastructure needs of the country, which is great. Planning and having discussions on what the priorities should be and where to put the money is the subject matter.
Minister Lebel will be dedicating quite a lot of his time in the summer to talking to our stakeholders on this issue, and our officials are working very hard. If you talk to any of our stakeholders, municipalities, they will say that this partnership is effective in trying to figure out where we go from here.