Thank you for that, Mr. Mayor. Let me just say that what I'm hearing from you, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that the cities of course have the opportunity to tax and from that tax base they are able to build infrastructure, such as sewers, water treatment plants, and those sorts of things. But in the more current reality, they are funding other things. I know that the City of Vancouver funds festivals, cultural things, all kinds of things. At the same time, the cities come to the federal government here and say that they have no money for infrastructure, yet they are funding other things. Obviously and clearly, the cities have choices locally in terms of what they have the capacity to fund.
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