Finance committee  Thank you. To your first point, surely the investments that you made in public transport are valuable; I'm sure they are. In distinction to that, the transit benefit is actually one of these magic potions that doesn't cost anything. It focuses a small amount of resources, a mini

Finance committee  Yes, I agree that investment in public transport is very valuable, but I'll speak to the transit benefits particularly. It is very effective. It has been studied and concluded by dozens of studies, including ones done by the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. In fact, it i

Finance committee  The employer-based transit benefit really is wholly different from the existing tax credit. They are fundamentally different. The employer-based program focuses on the work site and where people drive to work. There are tremendous numbers of infrequent riders. Most people don't

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. Mr. Chair and honourable committee members, my name is Richard Oram. I'm the founder of the Commuter Check company, which is owned by Accor Services, a Paris-based company. In addition to similar programs worldwide, Accor provides public transport benefits—trans