Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses. I apologize in advance for not being able to ask questions to each and every one of you, but time is what time is.
My first question is to Mr. Roschlau, with respect to your three recommendations.
Your first recommendation, with respect to the flow-through of the gas fund, I think is actually a good idea. If that could be enhanced, I think it makes a lot of sense.
Your third recommendation, however, builds upon this transit pass business that was introduced a couple of budgets ago. My recollection of it was that it was going to cost about $900 million to the federal treasury, that its cost per tonne in reducing greenhouse gases was astronomical—something like $6,000 a tonne—and that it was not going to increase ridership. Yet your proposal here is in effect to “level the playing field”. You want to actually add to what I respectfully submit is a flawed public policy.
Do you have any evidence of increased ridership as a consequence of this particular policy? If you have, I'd be interested in hearing it.