Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the last member and in particular to his comments about the need for infrastructure. He emphasized Ontario but I have to reflect this in terms of my own province of British Columbia.
Governments in general have an excise tax on gas. The Liberal government right now takes in about $1 billion a year in fuel taxes from my province of British Columbia and yet it spends only about $200 million nationally on this highway infrastructure the hon. member talked about. If he thinks there are problems with highway infrastructure in Ontario, imagine the challenge we have in British Columbia with our highly mountainous terrain. B.C., being forestry dependent and having a lot of mining product that goes south, needs a very good highway infrastructure and it is very expensive to maintain.
Having made a comment about the infrastructure in Ontario, what does he think about his government's policy of spending $200 million a year on the highway system nationally while extracting $1 billion from British Columbia alone? B.C. needs some of its own money back so it can fix its highway infrastructure.