Mr. Chairman, I want to make a couple of points to the Minister. First of all, the Standing Committee on Finance is asking that the Department of Transportation live up to its prior commitments and advance the funding for the first phase of construction. The previous capital books presented in this House indicated that this was a commitment. The Department of Transportation decided to delete it. We are asking them to live up to the prior commitments that we had addressed in previous years.
With respect to the Minister advising this House on the Member sending in his list of commitments, if a Member knows that a government has made a prior commitment, a Member is not going to take more energy to write to the government to make sure that it is a priority because we expect the government to live up to its prior commitments.
With respect to the Minister indicating that the Member has had enough in his riding as a result of the transfer, that was a negotiated deal with the federal government when we took over Transportation. So for the Minister to indicate that, is totally unwarranted.