Finance committee  I would agree with you, but as far as the municipality goes, our revenue generation comes from property tax. We don't have additional opportunities to create much—

Finance committee  Yes, I recognize that, but for us as municipalities, our revenue generation is solely from property tax, so that's how we're having to make our difficult decisions about roads and parks and sewers. And we in our small communities have to deal with arts and culture, health care, education, and the community expectation is high and the desire to pay more taxes is low, absolutely.

Finance committee  Yes, I mean, it still is the Trans-Canada Highway. Again, I'm not personally opposed to it having a toll road, but as we've indicated before, it is 150 kilometres of twisty, windy, mountainous road. As Mayor Raven indicated, we hear the ambulance sirens going out onto that highway sometimes two or three times a day.

Finance committee  I would agree. There is no way that municipalities, just through property taxes, can bear the infrastructure deficit that is occurring in their communities. The gas tax has been phenomenal for our community, and we have invested it in local infrastructure. But it is incredibly important to see additional dollars going into our crumbling infrastructure.