Transport committee  My brother is chair of the Sunshine Coast minor hockey league, so I'd be remiss if I didn't point this out: We're responsible for 7,000 hockey rinks all across Canada. That's central to Canada. There's a big opportunity here for energy retrofits. It's substantial, so we're lookin

Transport committee  Thank you. Our recommendation was to double the gas tax for three years coming out of the pandemic. I did want to emphasize one of the benefits with the funding that comes through the gas tax fund. It's not just creating new infrastructure. It's also maintaining existing infra

Transport committee  We did our forecasting for our pre-budget submission, and it's going to cost $7 billion. This addition to the rapid housing initiative is welcome and it's helpful, but we still have a ways to go on our shared goals towards ending chronic homelessness. I'm going to pass it to Mr

Transport committee  Thank you very much, MP Soroka, through the chair. Let me start by saying that the news today is from a small community northeast of mine, Tumbler Ridge, which lost its entire Internet connectivity when a beaver chewed through the fibre optic line. As for constructing new lines

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. MP Rogers, it's great to see you again. I really appreciate seeing all of the recognition of the municipal experience around the table. The gas tax fund is absolutely critical. All across Canada it's a very simple and effective way to get funding from the

Transport committee  We have needs, and the needs don't go away. We would welcome another commitment and would welcome having more discussions along that line. Right now municipalities are dealing with a lot of uncertainty. Many of us just finished either a budget or going through the final stages o

Transport committee  Let me say that the biggest impact was the transit revenue. Ridership has been impacted, and we're expecting that to be a problem for years to come. The recovery on that is going to be, as I said, gut-wrenching. We all need to work together. We have transit commitments that are

Transport committee  We welcome the government's commitment on this one. We're really pleased. Yes, we got substantial support right across the board. Of course, we always want to get things moving as quickly as possible. We'll celebrate the wins. We're eager to get this going as soon as possible.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Barsalou-Duval. I don't know the technical terms in French, so I will answer your question in English. FCM agrees that there is room to improve the eligibility criteria—which you spoke to—for example, for emergency service equipment, municipal buildings or muni

Transport committee  Certainly, and thank you, MP Bachrach. The honorific used to be “Your Worship”, but I'm not sure right now. It's been substantial, and it has been gutting to our budgets. With the transit fund, over the last year, with ridership down 70% to 90%, we were in serious trouble all ac

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Iacono. I'm sorry, but I have to continue in English. The programs we have been implementing have been wonderful. We've appreciated them, but what works best for municipalities is when we can get predictable, sustainable, green and inclusive funding. Th

Transport committee  Thank you, MP Scheer. It's great to see you again since our meeting in November with all of FCM. Municipalities plan five years out, so we have a great number of projects. We acknowledge that some of the ICIP rollout has been slow, but certainly we have a large number of projec

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good evening. I'm coming to you from Prince George, B.C., on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T'enneh. I'm joined by Matt Gemmel, as you noted. He is the director of policy and research at FCM. On behalf of FCM's 2,000 member mu