Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Miller and members of the committee.

Transport committee  That's correct. That's the city's share. We have six other municipalities in the region, two urban centres, four rural, and they would obviously get smaller amounts, and the region itself, because we split it on a 50-50 basis, gets about $15 million.

Transport committee  From a city perspective, it's getting allocated and prioritized into a variety of infrastructure projects. As a municipality, a number of years ago we took what I think was a responsible view on the pending infrastructure deficit and developed an accelerated infrastructure prog

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. We felt that it was important. In fact, as we know, due to changes in accounting practices, municipalities were required to have a better sense of where they sit with their assets over the last number of years. We certainly have that in place. We know that as a

Transport committee  Absolutely, and thank you, again, Mr. Braid, for the opportunity to join you and your colleagues. I'll look at it, really, from two fronts: some general comments, and then specifically in terms of the two-way all-day GO transit proposal I spoke of. From a general front, we kno

Transport committee  Certainly I think, as you're aware, the gas tax fund was a program started under the previous government around the 2005 period, and was continued with significant investments from your government over the past decade. In our own municipality, we've seen that amount that we recei

Transport committee  Mr. McGuinty, I would say that is certainly information that I can speak with our staff about gathering and making available to you. I would say on that point in particular that, obviously, municipalities are always interested in maximizing the dollar value they can contribute

Transport committee  Again, I'm not getting into specific merits and so on. I'm simply pointing out, Mr. McGuinty, that I think there is some value—I'm not saying how much; that's for you folks to debate—in raising awareness among Canadians about investments in infrastructure projects by all orders o

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for your introduction. Thank you to the committee members, particularly Peter Braid, MP for Kitchener—Waterloo, for extending an invitation to the City of Kitchener to participate in your study of updating infrastructure in Canada. I'm pleased to be here on