Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the hon. member for Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel on his presentation.
I would just like to have his opinion on a statement I found in a Department of Transport report that is a few years old. It would be a good idea for our minister to reactivate this report. Experts hired by the Department of Transport were saying that the 10¢ excise tax that the federal government is collecting on gasoline is accumulating substantial funds, funds totalling billions of dollars. The report said that most of the proceeds of this 10¢ tax should be reinvested in Quebec and Canadian infrastructures suffering from underfunding, such as municipal infrastructures, roads and bridges.
Does my colleague have any figures that might tell us how much of this 10¢ is going back into Quebec or municipal infrastructures?