Thank you very much for that.
As a former member of the FCM in four previous years, I really appreciate the focus our government has put on developing infrastructure funds to support municipalities and communities across the entire country, because it's crucially important that we maintain the infrastructure in these many small rural communities.
Just last week, for example, I was able to announce a couple of projects under the housing accelerator fund for the towns of New-Wes-Valley and Port Rexton. It was for a total of around $1.4 million to allow these towns to put in the infrastructure and do the planning and strategizing needed for future housing developments in their communities.
These are small rural communities. I know that sometimes it gets frustrating, because these are small communities, but these are the communities that provided the leadership. They are municipalities that filled out the applications, and they were successful in this case. I truly appreciate that, because there are 256 small communities in the riding that I represent. To have a couple of these acknowledged, as small as they are, is truly appreciated.
Again, on these infrastructure programs, I'd encourage you to keep the focus on that as we go forward, particularly for small rural communities.
Mr. Chair, I'm not sure if there's time left, but I just wanted to make those comments.