I would like to just make a brief remark about my colleague from Guelph. I think it's very simplistic to say that if you're in a rural community, you ought to be using transit. I happen to be privileged to work in this chamber for a suburban rural riding. I can flatly let her understand one thing, flatly let her know: It is impossible to have transit systems in rural communities to get them downtown, and it would be cost-ineffective.

The reality is that this Liberal government has chosen time and again to put all their eggs in one basket. All my colleague is requesting with this piece of legislation is that we provide fairness for our rural communities and that we ensure that all municipalities have the ability to see sustainable funding for their infrastructure projects, whether you're talking about COMRIF or MIII. All these programs-they have never been that fair to all municipalities. It allows the government of the day to pick winners and losers. We oppose that.

The government is laughing, saying that there's nothing wrong with that. I can tell you one thing: We think there needs to be sustainable funding, we think there needs to be fair and equitable funding, and the best way to do that is through the gas tax. I want to applaud him for doing that.

I'm actually shocked that some of these members opposite who pretend to represent their constituents in this chamber consistently defeat Conservative private members' business, even if it's the right thing to do. This bill is the right thing to do, and I can assure you that the entire Progressive Conservative caucus stands with our member from Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke. We're going to support him today, and we hope the other members of this chamber do the same.