Finance committee  Thank you. As I say, we're very pleased at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, over this last period of time, to have this gas tax fund in place. Municipalities really depend on that. It can be budgeted for every year in regard to the number of dollars. One suggestion we

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Miller will answer.

Finance committee  All of our projects that we have submitted have been approved. Things have gone really well here in Summerside. But I know there are a few problems across the country.

Finance committee  No problem.

Finance committee  I think we had applied for ten, and I think they were all approved. As I say, things have worked out well. And they've worked out well in other parts of the country as well.

Finance committee  We have no complaints with the way things are going--

Finance committee  Thank you for that question. It seems to be working fairly well across the country. I guess there may be a few areas where things are moving a little more slowly, depending on the circumstances between the municipality and the province, or the province and the feds. I know that

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Our CEO, Brock Carlton, will be saying a few words in French as well. It is a privilege to be here today to share the important role that municipalities play across Canada and the role that the FCM plays in representing these

Finance committee  As we enter the post-recession period and the federal government begins dealing with the deficit, it would be wrong to repeat the mistakes of the nineties, when federal and provincial governments pushed deficits off the balance sheets and onto the streets of cities and communitie