Transport committee  I can't comment on local specific situations, because we don't work in each individual municipality and know every dynamic.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Well, if you look across the country at the story on the building Canada fund to this moment, in a lot of provinces and territories there are great difficulties in getting the money moving. Manitoba is an example of a success. Saskatchewan is an example of a success. In many othe

Transport committee  Yes, some have figured it out. I'm not going to point fingers at one order of government or another, but there's clearly a problem in some of these jurisdictions where the money is not moving. The other problem is that it's not always clear, and it's hard for municipalities to u

Transport committee  No. I'm not involved, or we're not involved, in specific situations in a place like Vancouver or in one particular municipality. There would be variables and circumstances there that we would not know about. It would not be beneficial for anybody if I were to guess at what those

Transport committee  When we were having discussions with the government around the economic action plan, we were working with one of the consulting firms in town, and their research had come to a formula that $1 billion of investment in infrastructure would create jobs on the order of 11,000.

Transport committee  Yes, there are municipalities that have. I can't say that they have acted to meet the standards since the regulations were brought in, but they happen to have waste-water treatment systems that meet the new standards. They've done that through their own investments, through inves

Transport committee  Specifically for disasters or generally?

Transport committee  I would say encourage a disaster, but that would be rather inappropriate. I think part of the problem is that it's unclear at the provincial level how municipalities access money. It varies across the country in terms of the ways and means for municipalities to access building

Transport committee  What we did, we being FCM, with a variety of other organizations, including CPWA and the other professional organizations that are key players in the question of infrastructure, was launch the Canadian infrastructure report card in 2012.

Transport committee  The infrastructure report card said that 30% of all municipal infrastructure, particularly focusing on roads and water, is at risk. The infrastructure report card was a combination of a qualitative assessment of the state of infrastructure—

Transport committee  What we've come up with is that when you think of what's at risk, and 30% of infrastructure is at risk, if we were to have to replace all of that stuff, it would cost on the order of $170 billion.

Transport committee  That's for municipal infrastructure related to roads and water.

Transport committee  No, it doesn't include federal or provincial.

Transport committee  We don't have one that I know of.