Right.
Two different governments have been in power now. We brought in a gas tax transfer to recognize the fact that Canadian cities don't have the revenue-raising powers that many of their competitor cities have around the world.
I don't think that when we were drafting the Constitution in the mid-1800s we really knew that we would emerge as a country of city-states, the way the world is moving, so municipalities are really having difficulty with their revenue-raising powers, with property taxes, bylaws, water, etc.
On the fact that we're trying to help municipalities meet some of their quality-of-life and infrastructure needs of the kind Mr. Hollands singles out—and hats off to Mr. Hollands for even talking about climate change and adaptation to climate change—what are we supposed to do, then? Are we supposed to take it at face value that we're sending too much money to cities, that they're all kind of bloated, and that it's a kind of fat-cat situation?