Thank you, Mr. Chair, for mentioning the H2O highway through the Great Lakes. There's record ice this year actually. Requests for icebreaking are up almost 25% on the Great Lakes.
Mr. Chair, I have a couple of brief comments and then I'll be splitting my time with Ms. Young.
First of all, with respect to Mr. Mai and the issue of Canadian content on the project that we're responsible for, which is the DRIC, Detroit River international crossing, we do have a waiver from buy American provisions that will allow both U.S. and Canadian steel on a very important project between our two nations.
It's rare that I find myself agreeing with Mr. McGuinty, but following the money is very important. In fact, I think there is a committee and an auditor general in Ontario who are following the money on the cancellation of two gas plants there, but I digress for a moment.
Mr. Lévesque, the airports capital assistance program, which is really critical for small airports particularly to ensure they are up to a high level of safety as per what they are regulated to do, if we were to follow Mr. McGuinty's narrative, that program was eliminated entirely.
That's not the case is it, Mr. Lévesque?