My question is about the infrastructure funding framework and the administration. Mr. Sarantakis mentioned a very intriguing point.
I was looking at the Northern Rockies Recreation Centre, which was a gas tax project in Prince George--Peace River. It was decided by the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, but it was administered--supposedly, through the communications of Infrastructure Canada--by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. Then I discovered that the UBCM administers the federal public transit agreement for 2006-10.
What are the different frameworks for funding public transit in each province? Has there been a follow-up on the effectiveness of different models of different provinces of these agreements? Has there been a benchmarking by Infrastructure Canada or Transport Canada of public value for each of these funding frameworks and administration? And what is the role of the federal government in sharing best practices knowledge among provinces so that maybe we could develop a strategy that would be effective on a national level so we are funding these projects in the most efficient manner?