Transport committee  With the creation of a minister of rural economic development, housed within Infrastructure Canada we have some temporary funding to set up the secretariat for two years to support that office in looking at the ongoing management of the way we support rural investment over time.

Transport committee  Yes, first nations are eligible for the gas tax fund, although it flows through Indigenous Services Canada, through the first nation infrastructure fund.

Transport committee  Since 2014, through 2018, there has been $139 million allocated to 255 reserves through the gas tax fund.

Transport committee  I am not aware of such a plan.

Transport committee  You have to know that the consultants will do complex analyses of fairly large projects, and that the work is expensive. I don't have the names of the consultants or the amounts, but we can ask our information person to forward those details to the clerk.

Transport committee  For Ontario, since November 2015, we have 2,188 projects for a value of $6.3 billion.

Transport committee  In the last year, I can. I know it's 266 nationally, but I don't have that broken out by province in my head. I will try to get that, and if I can't get it to you right now, I can certainly provide it to the chair for her to share with the committee.

Transport committee  The minister has said that there will be consequences—

Transport committee  —and the degree of consequences is what we are in commercial discussions with right now.

Transport committee  When we're looking at infrastructure, infrastructure is a key enabler for the long term. The investing in Canada plan is a 10-year program to look at what are the important investments that communities need to make to ensure that they have their infrastructure as a key enabler, a

Transport committee  We do. If you go to our website, we have a geospatial map that you can actually click on and you can go to your province. You can go to B.C. and you can drill down into your community, and on there you will see all of the projects, not just from Infrastructure Canada.

Transport committee  Okay. For B.C., since November 2015, we have 326 projects that have been approved, for a value of $3.3 billion. That is for B.C. right now. That does not include gas tax.

Transport committee  Gas tax would be separate for that.

Transport committee  I would have to get back to you on that particular point. I don't have that information, but I can get back to you.

Transport committee  We remain in commercial discussions with the Champlain Bridge on the penalties and the consequences for the contract for the delays. As soon as those discussions are complete, or the other proceedings, whether we go to court after, are known, we will continue to be transparent on