First, thanks very much. I find there is great value when members of Parliament can provide that local context on projects, so I appreciate it. Having sat on this committee for a number of years, I made efforts to do the same with some of the projects that were most important in my community. It's possible that we can support projects of this nature.
We've not made a decision to date on whether there's funding going into a particular project. It's not because we're sitting around and delaying, but because when there are highway projects, typically the primary jurisdiction falls within a provincial government, or it can be a municipality, depending on the nature of the specific project. We don't pick individual projects and say we're cutting a cheque for this or that. We establish programs that can fund different kinds of projects that are eligible and then rely on partners who have primary jurisdiction to prioritize those projects.
It's a discussion I'd be more than willing to entertain with the provincial government of British Columbia in order to understand which projects we may be able to fund. Of course, they go through an exercise of allocating their share of a federal program.
Of course, in the future there may be new or different programs that would change the eligibility. However, if you want to have a discussion off-line with me or my team to identify opportunities, that's something we'd be happy to do.