Thanks to the Minister for that. And I do look forward to us, when we are discussing new highway projects in the future, hopefully having some data at our fingertips about the full cost of repairing and maintaining our existing highways, we'll be able to take that into account fully when we consider new capital projects.

My only other question on this section has to do with the deferred maintenance part. I definitely support us allocating money to maintenance to -- of assets to protect life safety. I guess I'm wondering why such projects that often seem so urgent and so important to protect life safety don't otherwise rise to the top of our list of projects that we need to consider and have to be slotted and sort of compete for other -- with other funds under the category of deferred maintenance. Can the Minister explain why the types of projects that end up in deferred maintenance wouldn't appear otherwise at the top of the list of things that we need to fund in our capital budget? Thank you, Mr. Chair.