Transport committee  I'm running out of time, apparently, but I have one other question on the gas tax that was brought in. It's a great program, by the way, and—

Transport committee  —when we saw that, we made it permanent, doubled it, and indexed it. My municipalities are all rural and small. They rely a lot on this. Because this is actually the way you give municipalities the right to make the decisions for their capital costs, I would encourage you to th

Transport committee  Thank you, Minister, for being here. I am curious. I'm not on the committee, so I may have read this wrong, but how did you come up with 10,000 projects that were approved in 19 days?

Transport committee  It seemed that it was a large number to all of a sudden come across your desk—somebody's desk—to approve in a very short period of time. I have another other question. In your presentation, you said “ In New Brunswick, federal investments through Natural Resources Canada [create

Transport committee  But do you ask the question? Do you ask the question in the application as to whether this is going to be free for use by all the users or whether there would be some sort of compensation that comes back? Actually, it all goes back to my next question in terms of the gas tax.