I have a question about the nature of the strategy. You are suggesting we first go and have a dialogue with the tripartite forum. That's one idea. It's a good idea. I'm not saying it's bad. Essentially, that's what our bill suggests. It suggests we start by building a dialogue with a view to building the structures later.
Without stepping on municipal or provincial toes, I had a conversation with the federal Minister of Transportation a couple of years ago, and he said what they get at the federal level is a demand for money. Somebody will decide they want to do a project, and then hand the federal government a bill saying, “You will owe us a third”. I got the sense that minister would rather be at the table earlier, in the sense of designing a strategy.
The federal gas tax, for example, does not come with a “made in Canada” sticker. When the federal gas tax is being used, no credit is given to the federal government for paying for a chunk of the operating of the TTC, for example. We could build a strategy that recognized the federal infrastructure.