Madam Speaker, I too noticed that the member's French is coming along very well, which is great.
In my riding of New Westminster—Burnaby, there are cities desperately looking for infrastructure funding. The deficit on infrastructure funding has increased. It is now well over $170 billion. The concern, of course, is that we need the infrastructure funding, yet tens of billions of dollars have been promoted by the government as part of its budgetary documents but not allocated to municipalities across the country. That is the problem.
That is why it is so obvious to me as a member of Parliament, and should be to all members, including members of the government, that what we need is more transparency. We need the Auditor General to look into this issue. I am a little disturbed by the purported amendment by the government, because it would take away the ability of the Auditor General to look into this.
Therefore, my question is very simple. Given the fact that there is so much concern around infrastructure funding, why are the Liberals opposed to having the Auditor General fully look through all aspects of infrastructure funding?