Actually, all through Canada it costs us, with our large cities in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and Montreal, more than $3.7 billion per year in losses in our economy from congestion. Congestion is a major problem.
We can enlarge our roads, but there's a limit to that. We can go to Los Angeles or a place like that to see why. Otherwise, we can invest in public transportation.
The federal government, over the last seven years, has already invested about $1 billion per year in public transportation through actual programs. These programs are very good. They focus on municipal infrastructure, and from that we already have $1 billion per year.
What we recommend for the next 10 years is to maintain those programs that are already very interesting, but also to add a dedicated fund that will add $1 billion per year for the next seven to 10 years for, again, public transportation. It will support the economy everywhere in Canada. This is very specific to public transportation. We have it through all our main cities in Canada. It created almost 80,000 jobs throughout Canada, and we want to sustain that and also sustain people going to work. An example, two out of three people going to work downtown in Montreal are going by transit already, so it's very important for the other workers also.