I'll definitely ask him the question.
You say you come from Nova Scotia, a region of vast expanses. Quebec has vast expanses too. Thousands of Quebeckers currently have no road links to the national highway system. It's quite remarkable to hear such a statement from a minister. I don't know if you've thought of the people who have no road access and who've been told that no new roads will be built. That makes no sense. Thousands of people have been neglected for tens, even hundreds, of years, and they hope one day to see a road built to their door. We have a central government telling them it doesn't think they count. That's not a very positive statement.
Moving on to another topic, yesterday my leader asked the Prime Minister twice whether your government was willing to require Quebec municipalities to use money from the Canada community-building fund for housing. The purpose of that fund is, among other things, to fund water and sewage treatment plants and roads.
The Prime Minister clearly hasn't understood that. He has no idea what the Canada community-building fund is, even though your government allocates $2 billion a year to it.
Did you speak with the Prime Minister before your government hijacked the cities' money and interfered in a jurisdiction that is not its own?