I'll direct the majority of my questions to Mr. Carlton with FCM.
You mentioned some of the important impacts that phase two could have on small communities, given the carve-out. I heard repeatedly when talking with the municipalities in my riding.... There are 10, all of which qualify for the small communities fund in the recent bilateral signed with the Province of Nova Scotia, and about half of them qualify for the 60% cost-share.
There were two issues they raised with me that I believe are addressed.
The first is that having a specific carve-out for small communities would be important so you avoid the risk of our nation's largest cities sucking up all of the funds, despite the fact that the biggest cities definitely need very major investments.
The second issue was the inability of small communities in particular to afford their traditional one-third cost-share. Can you give me an idea of the scope of this problem? Particularly I'm interested in the cost-share and whether it was preventing small communities from actually tapping into federal money for federally funded infrastructure projects.