Mr. Chair, as the opposition critic for transportation, I was quite intrigued to actually hear a Liberal talk about transportation. However, this is a take-note debate on softwood lumber, and that had only maybe a touchpoint on it. I would suggest that if the member is really serious about seeing improvements to the Trans-Canada Highway, then it is provincial, and unless it is on indigenous reserves, a Canadian Armed Forces base or a national park, it has nothing to do with the federal power.
I have a question for the member. Instead of wasting the time given to a very serious issue with a local issue of concern that she is obviously trying to put a little spotlight on for a clip at home, could she comment on the $1.25 billion this government has brought forward, which no companies that I know of or that I have heard of have accessed? Does she believe that this needs to be a priority and that the government needs to at least give the money it says it will give?