Thank you.
It's different because now the gas tax is permanent. That's a lot of predictability for mayors all across the country. They can plan for 10 years.
We have also added many categories to the gas tax fund
to provide more flexibility
to the city councils and mayors to decide what they want to do with their money from the gas tax fund.
We have added a new part to this infrastructure plan that is the longest in Canada's history. It covers 10 years. It is much larger, increasing from $33 billion to $53 billion. We are going to implement it while balancing the budget and not increasing taxes with a carbon tax, like the one the two parties to my right are proposing.
In balancing the budget and without imposing higher income taxes on the country, we have created the new national infrastructure component for the development of the economy. We didn't have that in the former plan. Now we are working with the province and the territories for the rest of the plan in a good partnership, and we will respect their jurisdictions, which is very, very important to us.