Mr. Speaker, Ottawa is responsible for the deadline. It is the government that put that in its latest report.
The Conservatives must take people for fools when they say that 97% of the funding in their stimulus package has already been committed. If there were just 3% left to allocate, the Fédération Québécoise des Municipalités and the Union des municipalités du Québec would not be worried that a number of infrastructure projects will not be funded.
To avoid penalizing municipalities in Quebec, will the government show some flexibility?