Again, it's really a question of subsidiarity, as the Europeans would call it, that people at the ground level understand the local situations. That's not to say there aren't projects that require federal intervention and oversight. Clearly, going back to the construction of the railways, interprovincial bridges, those kinds of things, it seems to make a deal of sense to have some national thinking. It needn't necessarily be with cash on a project basis, but I think certainly the federal government should have a role. If it's not thinking about it already, we should be thinking about what we are going to do when the next stimulus is required. Are there high-speed connections we can put in place between different cities?
On April 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.