Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I'd be happy to, through you, Mr. Chairman. First, let me say that I've had the opportunity to vote on two P3 projects. One I voted in favour of and one I did not. That is to highlight not that I am open-minded, but rather that not all P3 projects are created equal. What we're

Finance committee  It would be. Many projects are ready to go. In my home region I'm the vice-chair of metro Vancouver. We have a $700-million secondary waste-water treatment plant that needs some assurance of funding, whether it be federal and hopefully provincial as well. But it goes to our havin

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, and thank you for recognizing my third vice-president: Sylvie Goneau is present as well. The question is a very appropriate one, I think. We do have shovel-ready and shovel-worthy projects ready for implementation. We have a plethora of projects that

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you. Through you, Mr. Chairman, perhaps you would like to follow along with the proposal you have before you. I think it is on page 5 where it outlines the addition, on the right-hand side of the page. “Rising to the Moment” is the top headline there, and what we're a

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Clearly, the FCM and our members agree with the government's position that it needs to be not only shovel-ready but shovel-worthy. Smart investments are the underpinning of our submission to the government today. We think investments today will save m

Finance committee  What I can say is that our membership has been clear, and it is one of our top priorities. There are three priorities at the FCM: housing, transit, and green infrastructure. Housing affordability is a challenge for all of our local government members, every single one. What we'

Finance committee  Thank you, Chairman Easter. Members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to present to you today. My name is Raymond Louie. I'm the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. I'm the acting mayor for the City of Vancouver. I've been elected like you for

Environment committee  The recommendation to the committee is to look carefully at the opportunities that we're presenting specific to waste. We believe there's an opportunity to reduce costs to municipalities and to consumers in general. If you look at the circular economy, that is a more efficient

Environment committee  I've outlined a number already, in terms of food waste. I've outlined how tax incentives should recognize donated food has value, in order to best reduce the food-waste side of the equation. I think that overall the issue is so large and multifaceted that it is important that we

Environment committee  The reason I'm hedging a bit is that I'm not at liberty to say; I want to be respectful of all the participants in the National Zero Waste Council and the working groups that are involved. They are working through the process. I think it's important for us to have the integrity m

Environment committee  There have been a number of assessments done. In terms of our infrastructure, we've done a number of surveys. Most recently we did an infrastructure survey of our members representing over 90% of the population. We didn't get 100% of our population of our membership responding, b

Environment committee  There are old numbers in terms of the overall infrastructure deficit: $123 billion is the number dating back to 2007. We did not update those numbers; we focused on the efficiencies of having upgrades to our infrastructures today rather than waiting until the end-of-cycle costs t

Environment committee  Absolutely. You are correct that we should always have high and stringent standards. What we're saying is that there needs to be a test that should be met. If you can meet that test to indicate the food is safe, then that food should be absolutely diverted. As I stated earlier