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Government Operations committee Thank you, Madam Chair. Carlton will start the first part of our opening statement and I'll continue with the second part, if that meets with your pleasure.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Thank you, Brock. In the 2009 budget, Parliament set aside $5 billion in new federal stimulus funding for provincial, territorial, and municipal infrastructure projects. Today municipalities are matching federal investments in their communities. We manage stimulus projects from
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Two pages? Thank you. Crisis management is never perfect, and there are important lessons we must learn from this experience, lessons that we need to act on. The country must put every single stimulus dollar to work creating jobs in cities and communities. Federal, provincial, a
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Thank you for the question. The position at present is that funding will be terminated come the deadline of March 2011. After that municipalities will have to finish the projects by themselves.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Of course that is speculation at this time. I think when municipalities applied, they knew there was a finite window they had to work within. However, as I mentioned in my speech, things happen in discussions between the federal and provincial governments, or within construction
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee I'm afraid I can't answer that question. I don't know. I do know, however, that FCM has advocated for a gas-tax-like funding program for several reasons, as we explained previously. However, we have also worked with application-based programs before very successfully. I'm afraid
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Yes, I was. Thank you. Of course, the gas tax has always flowed money to meet local needs with efficiency and accountability, as you've mentioned. That's, of course, why municipalities supported its introduction in 2005 and its extension in 2008 by the present government. And th
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Thank you. You've posed a very interesting question. I'm sure the government recognizes the problems of the deadline. Speaking--
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Yes, that is what they have said. And I believe that if you want to make sure somebody is going to do something, you set a deadline. Having said that, though--talking about my kids--even though I've set deadlines, sometimes when we get near the deadline and we get pushed, things
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee That's a very interesting question, and of course it asks for an opinion on my behalf. You asked if I believed that they conspired. I can't answer that. I have no way of knowing. I read the newspapers like everybody else, and that's as much as my level of knowledge goes. I'm sorr
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Thank you for that. Actually, the reception has been very good in all of those cases, and that's one reason we advocated for the continuance and the permanence of the gas tax, which has been a large stimulus and has been very well received. I certainly thank the government for s
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee We are.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Government Operations committee Thank you, Madam Chair. I wish I could give you more statistics other than what Mike has already given. But these are our key messages. One, our biggest concern is about the stimulus package and what happens after it's gone. We're worried about a long-term infrastructure defici
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham
Transport committee Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Before I start, I'd like to thank and recognize UBCM, one of our provincial association partners, for joining us today to provide details from the front lines in B.C. I have with me our CEO, Mr. Brock Carlton, and Mr. Mike Buda
June 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Hans Cunningham