Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to have an opportunity to take part in the debate on the main estimates. Six motions related to them will be debated and voted on in the course of this evening.
Since all of his Quebec colleagues made a commitment in the last federal election to invest close to $1.9 billion in strategic highways in Quebec, could the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister tell me where in the estimates the $2 billion figure for the strategic infrastructure program appears? The minister responsible for infrastructure tells us that some guidelines will soon be forthcoming to indicate when we will have the opportunity of getting some projects included in this program.