Certainly, and I agree with your assertion altogether that some of these major projects, particularly on these bigger highway investments you're referring to, don't happen without significant investments by the federal government.
I mentioned during a previous answer my own community benefiting from the twinning of 37 kilometres of highway between Sutherland's River and Antigonish. That is helping to improve safety on what was the most deadly stretch of highway in my province, but within municipalities, when you look at the extraordinary cost of investing in infrastructure, you can see that clearly that they need support as well.
One of the things that sometimes gets lost in the mix is that even the decisions taken by municipal governments to fund roads are sometimes using federal resources. On the municipal projects I was pointing to, in Newfoundland, 391 different projects were funded by the federal government through decisions taken by municipalities through the Canada community-building fund. Literally, in your province alone, hundreds of road projects have benefited from federal funding. It makes an important difference, not just for those major highway expansions you're referring to but also for transportation, particularly in smaller communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, and in fact in every jurisdiction in the country.