Transport committee  I'll give you Northern Sunrise County to the City of Grande Prairie. I'll give you our cooperation between Dawson Creek, B.C., to northern Alberta, and links on the Saskatchewan side between Alberta and Saskatchewan. I guess that all I'm saying that if you believe there is room f

Transport committee  Well, I would suggest some re-pooling of dollars.

Transport committee  Our service is not localized. We run well over 250 kilometres one way to take somebody to a regional facility.

Transport committee  I would suggest that inherent in the GST and the gas tax.... Incredibly, as Canada's economy is going to keep scaling up and up and up, then a portion of that...I would suggest that the federal government's taxation side...perhaps there. I would suggest many things. But I'm reall

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. In our situation, we already have a system in place. It works, and we are moving it along: we just need additional dollars to make sure it continues. I don't think a huge bureaucracy built around the transit system is the answer. I believe that

Transport committee  If I may, there are three levels of government. Each one of us gets a few tax dollars, and we all....

Transport committee  May I respond?

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to say to you that the reason the Canadian government should be involved with this is that the more globally we are pushing everything, the more global our seniors have become as well. Even though they may be unable to drive anymore—one point I

Transport committee  Okay. I would suggest that you do it for cities in their manner. So if you have a transit system that runs from A to B, whether it be anywhere in Canada, then I would suggest they should fall underneath the same....

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  Well, inside our boundaries in Alberta, the infrastructure we're utilizing to transport people today will be the same infrastructure on which we would put another van to transport people. This doesn't mean that these are paved roads and it doesn't mean they aren't. My concern tod

Transport committee  I will tell you right now, speaking for my municipality in Northern Sunrise County, that we do subsidize a seniors van to ensure that we can pick them up at home in a rural area, in a farming community, and take them to Grande Prairie to their doctors, or to Peace River, and ensu

Transport committee  Absolutely, and we've asked for the whole system to be looked at in regard to how we're moving people. So yes, for sure.... In urban settings, it's simpler: there's a close-knit boundary. But in rural areas, it's largely driven by weather or by the gravelled road or the mud road-

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. In Alberta we have the Family and Community Support Services. They sponsor 80%. As municipalities, we put in 20%. Through that program, we run all kinds of programs for youth, the disabled, seniors, and so on. We put some of that money into transportation and the