Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for the question.
During the summer, Mr. Fletcher and I held 14 round tables to meet the Canadian population—businessmen and women, mayors, ministers of provinces and territories from all over the country—and we received very well their message.
First of all, they were very, very happy about all we'd done in the past. We have to begin with that. They proposed to us, for sure, a lot of different things, but different parties have different approaches. For us, we have lowered taxes on income 140 times since we've been in government. Other parties want higher taxes; create $56 billion in new expenses; $21 billion of carbon tax—it's easier to transfer money at that time; they promise something on one hand, and they catch more in the other one.
That's not what we want to do in our own government. We want to continue to manage the economy of this country very well, and that's why we will depose a good infrastructure plan for the future of this country, respecting the capacity of the taxpayers.
It is very important for us to have a plan that respects the capacity of Canadian taxpayers and to continue doing good things.
As well, Mr. Chair, we have to respect jurisdictions. The Gardiner Expressway is municipal. I know this member was a municipal councillor in the city, and probably she knows the issues of her own city very well. But that's not a federal matter; that's a municipal matter. We'll never decide on behalf of municipal councils what is good for them. We will always let them decide on their own priorities.
The same for transit. Since we've been in government we have invested more than $5 billion in transit in this country, and we will continue to support transit, but we will not decide here in Ottawa what is good for Montreal, Laval, or Toronto, or any other city in the country. We respect that.