Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that my colleague has previously served as a city councillor. I would like to know his thoughts on the fact that the federal budget, as presented, includes only $9 billion in new infrastructure funding over five years. Furthermore, within that, there is $5 billion over three years for hospitals from coast to coast. Today, building a single teaching hospital costs more than $5 billion. The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital in Montreal will cost even more.
As a city councillor, would my colleague have felt insulted to receive such crumbs from the federal government?