Transport committee  Sure, we'll send it through the chair—

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  I walked.

Transport committee  I am a driver. I'm a good driver.

Transport committee  Thank you. It was your colleagues in the United Kingdom, in the 2008 parliamentary report of the transport committee, who said, about the London Underground: “Whether or not the Metronet failure was primarily the fault of the particular companies involved, we are inclined to the

Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, I gave you an example of the mayor of Winnipeg. He's only one elected official. He's accountable to 600,000 Canadians. He has argued that the space created by the GST cuts should be occupied by a dedicated infrastructure fund that the Government of Manitoba would re

Transport committee  We would pay for that out of general government revenues dedicated towards putting people to work and meeting the $125 billion deficit, which the delegation from the FCM spoke to you about last week.

Transport committee  We're talking about a renewal of things like the Building Canada fund.

Transport committee  Listen, it wasn't your government, but in 1995, in another period of time to deal with....

Transport committee  Well, the Canada Assistance Plan.... This is the first recession. We're dealing with the first recession since 1995.

Transport committee  And getting rid of the Canada Assistance Plan has had a devastating impact on municipalities.

Transport committee  If I had the answer to that I'd be a rich person. I don't care whether it's health care, social housing, municipal infrastructure, or post-secondary education, on all fronts the best decisions Canadians enjoy are those where there's broad consensus from the federal--notwithstandi

Transport committee  The percentage of GDP being spent on public services right now is under 30%. Toby Sanger will probably have the exact number. We're at the lowest levels we've been in 50 years. The economy has grown. Public spending doesn't have to keep pace exactly with all growth in the econo

Transport committee  I'm talking total governmental spending, all forms of taxation, as a percentage. It's in the index to Mr. Flaherty's budgets each year.

Transport committee  I didn't either.