First of all, I totally disagree with you. I have a chart from Budget 2013 of the average age of public infrastructure in Canada. You can see the age of the infrastructure from 1973 to 1994 and 1997. The peak age of infrastructure in the country was in 2000, 2003, 2006. Since that era, it's been declining and will continue to do so because we're investing in infrastructure.
I, like 25 other of my colleagues, including the chair of this committee, am a former municipal politician. We know exactly what is on the table now. We have doubled, extended
in legislation for the
gas tax fund. But that's a 10-year program; it's not a race. They don't have to expend this money this year, but for the next 10 years. No money will be taken from this program.
For the national infrastructure component, for the provincial and territorial component, it's a 10-year program. In the budget we have the money needed for the projects, but it's not a race, and the provinces and municipalities will have all the money they want in the next 10 years.