Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Mr. Kendrick. I'm picking up on something that Todd Doherty asked.
As you know, because you're the person quoted in all the news stories explaining to British Colombians and Albertans, we are losing Greyhound service. As you know, because you used to run it, there's no service between many of the communities in rural British Columbia and Alberta. If you look right across Canada, Saskatchewan has lost its bus service and the Maritimes have lost their bus service. I'm looking pre-pandemic and wondering whether anyone can make a case that this was a model that was working. As Mr. Doherty suggested, you have monopolies on the lucrative bus lines, particularly the ones in Ontario on Highway 401.
What would work better?
I'm then going to turn to Mr. D'Angelo to ask for more of a public-sector response. However, from the private sector, I really feel that you let us down.
Mr. Kendrick, I'm being honest with you. I'm really angry that you went ahead and cut the services in British Columbia, and you never spoke to the provincial minister, according to her statement. Minister Trevena and the media said Greyhound did not reach out to her first to ask for help before cancelling all those services.
I'll also add to this, that the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls inquiry linked the lack of public transit to why the marginalized, indigenous and vulnerable women were hitchhiking.
In your mind, what would have made that model work?
I'm going to ask the same question to Mr. D'Angelo.