Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think I will direct the first question to Vince Lalonde, city manager of Surrey, B.C. Welcome to the committee today, Vince.
I found it quite interesting that it wasn't really all that long after October 2015 that Minister Sohi was in Surrey announcing a fair bit of money that had been allocated by the previous government that I think was going to go into basically water and sewer systems, etc., right across B.C.
Why did that happen so quickly? Why was Surrey there ready to go?