Thank you, Monsieur Jean. I understand you have a preoccupation with some of the debate in the United States and elsewhere about the future of the oil sands. I'm going to turn your question around a little bit.
I was struck by what Ms. McLeod said in terms of her concern about deficits, but I see investments in public transit like a doctor would see good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. When you create jobs, you're also creating demand for public transit and putting more pressure on transit, which is actually the solution to keeping the economy fluid. So the investments in public transit are actually the good cholesterol and should be seen apart in your thinking from other investments that may have an impact on the deficit.
I've often said that it's unfair to target current government as being insensitive to public transit. It's just not the case. I go every year to Ottawa as part of ACTU's lobby days and we talk to members of all the parties. There's a common concern among all four parties represented in Parliament about how we are going to improve transit to make Canada economically competitive. We all have the same line, we just talk in different ways about how we want to do it.
What I say is that you're producing the gas, the gas tax is a way to fund us. You might want to consider the indexation of the gas tax as a way to help us and help yourself.