I work for them so I'm not sure I would agree with that, but for some specific reasons.
First of all, up until just a couple of years ago municipalities spent 90% of what Canada spends in municipal infrastructure in the country. The rest was coming from provincial and federal governments. Up until very recently, the federal government was a welcome but fairly minor player. That picture has changed significantly in the last two or three years, especially with budget 2013.
So the federal government's role in local infrastructure is actually quite significant now, but it's a very recent one. It comes on the heels of about 30 years of underinvestment and disinvestment by all orders of government, including municipal orders of government. So we've never suggested the municipal governments don't have.... If you want to point fingers, they definitely deserve to have fingers pointed at them. But the reality is that the problem has roots in 30 years of disinvestment by orders of government.
If, as a country, we agree this core local infrastructure is in fact a foundation of our economic growth, we can either choose to point fingers and lay blame, or work together to solve the problem. While we put the plans in place to solve that problem, we obviously have to make sure we're not creating new ones down the road, and we're holding our governments to account so that the problem doesn't recur.
We believe that's happening, but it's not a short-term solution and the investment levels that are currently being invested are making up lost ground. As our reaction in the budget showed, we think it's a really important foundation. The light at the end of the tunnel is there, but we still have a way to go.