As you know from FCM, we own 60% of the public infrastructure in municipalities across Canada. We collect 8ยข on the dollar of taxes raised. We have huge infrastructure needs, and we plan for them in terms of regulatory requirements often 10 years or longer in advance.
When you're planning for infrastructure and you're trying to align the growth of your cities, you need a sustained approach. You need to have clarity and predictability with regard to sources of funding, and you need to have clear processes for how to access that. The more certainty we have around the investments that are possible from the federal government and the menu of options the federal government has an interest in investing in, the better it is for us.
Clarity, sustained investment over time, certainty and predictability, and processes that are streamlined and relatively clear for us to participate in, and knowledge of when decisions will be made all make our lives really much easier in order to get our public onside, to locally raise the necessary funds to create the matches, and to bring all three levels of government together.