Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I have two petitions to table this morning.
The first one deals with the national highway system, 38 per cent of which is substandard. The petitioners point out that the national highway policy study identified job creation, economic development, saving lives, preventing injury and, more importantly, improving Canada's competitiveness on international markets as benefits of the proposed national highway program.
Therefore, constituents in my riding are calling on the federal government to join with the provincial governments in upgrading the national highway system.