Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all our guests.
It's interesting, Minister, when you speak in terms of the funding through the gas tax. You may know that I come from the tenth-largest city in Canada. In London our prior mayor—I don't mean the current mayor—once said that if the federal government would only provide us with funding that was guaranteed...and then we talked about doubling it, but doubling it and making it permanent, that they would never come back to us for another ask about infrastructure funding.
So it's rather interesting; when my colleague opposite talks about the mayors across Canada looking for more predictable funding for infrastructure, it's clear—to me, at least, as I review this—that they have done that.
It would prompt this question. As Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities, what message might you give to the mayors across Canada?