Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First and foremost, we must recognize that the Building Canada Fund and projects are a seven-year plan, and we’re going through those final stages of getting a funding agreement in place with Canada.
At that point, we’ll be able to get some confirmation as to what projects will actually flow out of there. The federal government will still have a say in that.
The process used for identifying projects that will flow from there came from a number of sources of existing capital plans, the work that was done on cost-sharing arrangements — because that requires cost sharing — and that impact on the existing budget. So there were a number of factors that did play a role there. Transportation initiatives were on a 20-year needs assessment, or the joint plans that have been put out there, whether it was the Corridors for Canada 1 or 2 program and, as well, the joint initiative between the three territories.
Municipal and Community Affairs worked with the communities to come up with a list of projects, the ones that were most critical that we were unable to fund in the past. Those are the ones that started the process, but we still have a number of years to identify projects, and we’ll continue on that process.