Mr. Chair, I will be using my 15 minutes to pose a series of questions to the ministerial team.
First, I would like to recognize the presence of public servants for what I would describe as an unusual exercise. To my knowledge, this is the first time that all of the votes are being debated before a single House committee.
I will begin with the Office of Infrastructure of Canada. As we see in the document, there is no supplementary funding to vote on.
Why is that? It is because the money that we voted in previous budgets is not going out. It is not being spent.
In that regard, I would like to ask the government to make a commitment. One way to accelerate infrastructure spending would be to send an unconditional, automatic transfer to Quebec, similar to the model used for the gas tax transfer before new conditions came into effect on January 1, 2019.