Our constituents know how bad our roads, our sidewalks, our infrastructure is.

The feds should allow each region to understand what its priorities are because from there in their ivory towers, they don't really know what each region needs. Let us decide where the money goes.

We are not asking that roads be closed; we are not asking that sidewalks be closed; we are not asking for additional police protection,

The average taxpayer wants their potholes filled, their roads maintained, their sidewalks maintained, and under this deal that just isn't happening.

There's probably going to be about $100 million spent to buy the property ... for all the roads and everything that goes into that. Guess who has to pay for that? It's going to be us, the taxpayers. We're going to pay that money.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.