Thank you, Chair, and my thanks to our guests for being here today.
I found this testimony very interesting. As we go through this process, your perspective on what we are looking to do nationally, provincially, and municipally in terms of infrastructure is very helpful, because you work with the people who make things work.
We look to leadership around our country and our various provinces. Certainly, part of that leadership is the Union of Quebec Municipalities, as far as our approach to infrastructure is concerned. One of the comments that we received from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities was that we initiated a gas tax at 1%, then we doubled it, and then we made it permanent. In the most recent budget, we've indexed it, which has great bearing. I come from the 10th largest city in Canada, and even for a population of not quite 400,000, people, that's worth some $21 million to my city. I would imagine it's much greater in the province of Quebec. We had a very unequivocal statement from the FCM, from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, that they thought that it was a very positive step.
Did you take a formal position on the gas tax in the budget and the indexing of it? Could you comment on that, please?