I appreciate the principle of the question. Being asked for our priorities is one of the reasons we have an infrastructure plan that looks like it does. This government has listened closely to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities when it comes to our long-standing message around the need to invest in infrastructure and for Ottawa to play a leadership role in articulating national priorities, to work with provinces that understand regional priorities, and then to value local governments as implementation partners really at the table from the start, rather than as the last people you talk to in the chain of national decision-making. So even asking us in the first instance is the right instinct.
Then I think the other point would be, just to reinforce what I was saying earlier, long-term certainty, rolling programs particularly for megaprojects. Transit projects, in particular, tend to play out over even decades at a certain scale. Having a longer-term outlook for transit would be very helpful, just to give one example. Then I think that the key thing is to never forget the need to put pressure on provinces to ensure that their own long list of infrastructure priorities isn't automatically placed ahead of local government needs.
Perhaps the one place where we could talk some more about further opportunities for collaboration would be about the state of good repair. I know that that doesn't necessarily create the same economic bang for the buck. But recognizing that we have two-thirds of the country's infrastructure in the form of buildings, bridges, and roadways, and yet we have—give or take—eight cents of the tax dollar, every bit of assistance we can get from senior orders of government with state of good repair means that we're not having to use scarce dollars locally exclusively to deal with that. We'll have more opportunities to invest strategically in initiatives that will support economic growth and improve social and environmental outcomes.