Transport committee  A concessionaire would maintain and operate the system.

Transport committee  Yes, that is correct.

Transport committee  That is correct.

Transport committee  I am a member, as is my colleague, Mayor Corrigan. It is a consortium of all the mayors of the region. I believe the number is at 22.

Transport committee  And it—

Transport committee  I was going to add to that. There is a consortium of all the mayors of the region, and they act as an advocacy towards TransLink and the TransLink governance. We have two members—I am one of them—who sit on the board of directors of TransLink. The mayors' council provides us with the guidance and direction that they would like me, and the other member, the chair, to deliver.

Transport committee  I don't control that. It would be through TransLink. I can make that inquiry of TransLink, certainly, as a board member.

Transport committee  I don't think so.

Transport committee  Of course.

Transport committee  In a nutshell, I could sum it up in one word: growth. We have 1,000 new people arriving in this city every month. We need this connectivity, given our geographic size. As I alluded to earlier in my comments, we're 350 square kilometres. We're huge. We have to find another mechanism of connecting people within the community and light rail is critically important.

Transport committee  We'll send it to the chair.

Transport committee  You may or may not know that within our city centre we have actually established, as a city, our own district energy system. We can always use help on that.

Transport committee  It was signed with the government. Yes.

Transport committee  Yes, we can always use help in growing that. We've made it fundamental to the development of any of the new high-rise structures or anything new coming onto the grid that they have to attach themselves to our district energy. The clean energy power plant construction—we could certainly use some national help with that.

Transport committee  Thank you. We have had the advantage of infrastructure funding. We got some $8 million for the 96th Avenue arterial widening, and we did sign an agreement. We got the Bridgeview sewer, which was at one time a gravity flow. We were having a lot of problems with that sewer system, and we got some help with that back in 2009.