Madam Speaker, l will follow-up on the member opposite's question. Would my colleague not agree that spending the money is so much more important than just announcing it?
When we talked to mayors in the run up to the election and the run up to the party platform, we found that although hundreds of millions of dollars had been announced by the previous government, none of it was actually spent. If we look at the cities of Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Mississauga, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Saint John's, they were all promised infrastructure dollars but not one penny was ever delivered to those cities in the last two calendar years.
Would my colleague not agree that spending infrastructure money is more important than promising it?