Environment committee  You have two questions. First, ne, should there be funding for small communities? There is an existing program right now under the small communities fund for populations under 100,000.

Environment committee  That funding is available for small communities. Now I'll address your second question about measuring. We are going into the new bilateral agreement with the new programs with the provinces. Infrastructure Canada is going to embed in those agreements a performance measurement o

Environment committee  As I mentioned earlier, we are going to be partnering with a few partners, such as the FCM, to push the envelope even a little bit longer in terms of planning and asset management. Coming back to more sustainability and clean water, we are going to invest a fair amount of dollars

Environment committee  That's a core question. We're getting into the world of categories here, of eligibility in terms of projects. The federal government's approach, under the gas tax in particular, was to have a wider range of categories so that the municipalities and the provinces could choose in l

Environment committee  Under the gas tax? Oh, you're talking about the other program itself. In terms of incentives, we are partnering in providing the funding. If you look at the small community funds and provincial funds or the national fund itself, these are usually done one third, one third, one

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  The problem is that in some cases it creates a gap. When investing in infrastructure, it can become a burden in the future because it still needs to be maintained. This is also part of the asset management plan itself. It's not just to build capacity on the asset management plan,

Environment committee  That's a very good question. Considering that we are a fairly young department, we have realized from working with the various partners, municipalities, and provinces that not everybody is at the same level from an asset management point of view. Some have very sophisticated pla

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  Your question is also about whether we are monitoring the categories of projects the investment are going to. Yes, we are as a department?

Environment committee  However, the provinces and the territories are responsible for collecting the data. They feed that into a report on an annual basis, but they also [Inaudible--Editor] the agreement in the program. They have to publish an outcome report by March 31, 2018, and then again by March 3

Environment committee  The provinces and the territories.

Environment committee  Thank you for the question, because it allows me to mention that the way the majority of our programs are designed at Infrastructure Canada is that they're done in partnership with the provinces and territories, who are prioritizing their core objectives in terms of the projects

Environment committee  This is something that we are going to address. I just want to underline that under the gas tax and the agreement with each of the provinces and the entities, they are reporting every year in an annual report the projects that have been implemented. If they don't provide that rep

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for inviting me to speak before you. I’ve been invited here today to speak to you about Chapter 1: Federal Support for Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure. This chapter of the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development