Finance committee  Mr. Chair, my understanding is that in the current program announced in April of this year, sport and recreation projects aren't one of the eligible categories. They had been previously in the previous Building Canada fund. That's my understanding. I can certainly provide additional information to substantiate that understanding.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  There would be. To your point of municipalities working together, I think there are examples where there have been facilities built that have crossed jurisdictions and they figured out a way to both build them on the capital side and then share an operating cost, whether that's on percentage of use, or working with academic institutions, etc.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. To your first point, the fund would allow communities to do major renovations or rehabilitation to any manner of sport and recreation infrastructure. First of all, municipalities are probably the owner of the largest sport and recreation asset base across this country.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, committee members, on behalf of the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association, or CPRA, I'd like to thank you very much for inviting our association to appear at your pre-budget hearings. I'm Jennifer Reynolds, a past president of CPRA and the director of community services for the Town of Milton, Ontario.