Transport committee  I'll have to check and see if that can be provided. The difference between the bridge and these programs is that these are transfer payment programs, so the conditionality for these could be very different from—

Transport committee  —the P3 capital project that's administered by the department.

Transport committee  In some cases, the costs for signage are eligible costs under a project. The recipient would pay for a portion of the cost of that sign, potentially. In other cases we may pay for it ourselves, in my understanding.

Transport committee  It would be under our transfer payment program, if it's an eligible cost under our transfer payment program. The funding for the signs is coming through the transfer payment program, not potentially the entire sign because we're cost-sharing. Some components of the costs of the s

Transport committee  Yes. For example, we provided funding to the Port of Montreal for some expansion activities.

Transport committee  At a macro level in terms of the actual programs themselves, that's the decision of the government, and as good bureaucrats we will implement those decisions in terms of the level of funding that's provided to us.

Transport committee  Again, it all comes down to the budget process and what's recommended through the budget process. We basically implement whatever policies are developed that way.

Transport committee  I would say in terms of asset management that we need to continue working through the gas tax fund on that. We have an actual category under capacity building, so we would encourage municipalities to continue to take advantage of that capacity-building component given the flexibi

Transport committee  What we do is, if we go back to some of our material that we provide to folks, there are certain outcomes we're looking for. A good example would be, let's say, public transit, so a public transit project comes in. What we're looking for is how this project is going to reduce urb

Transport committee  It's direct, it's positive, and it also provides a predictable source of funding for the municipalities as well, so they know what's coming.

Transport committee  Yes, that would most definitely be another tool they could most definitely use as well. I would also add they could potentially use the provincial-territorial infrastructure component's national and regional component, the $9 billion, if they can demonstrate that the project is r

Transport committee  With the exception of the national infrastructure component, which we administer directly through Infrastructure Canada, yes. In terms of the PTIC, national and regional, the small communities fund, those elements are really driven by provinces and territories providing us with t

Transport committee  Absolutely. It's a merit-based program. Projects come in, we assess them on their merits, and make decisions.

Transport committee  It could be from the private sector, from a Canada port authority, from a public sector body such as a province, territory, or municipality, as well as first nations—

Transport committee  Some of the filters we use, obviously, are in and around the type of project we're going to support. Under the national infrastructure component we're very much interested in highways and major roads, as well as rail, local and regional airports, and ports. Those can be fairly si