Thank you for the question.
Actually, the government can do a lot, both by looking at what the provinces are doing and what other countries are doing.
Obviously, encouraging active mobility and public transit and developing inter-regional transportation using other means than personal cars and trucks are the best ways to reduce our carbon footprint.
We also need to invest in rail transportation and developing all kinds of public transit and shared transportation initiatives to reduce the number of vehicles on our roads. That's really what's most important. Even on the freight side, we have a lot of work to do to optimize our networks and supply chains and to reduce emissions, which continue to rise in that sector.
As far as transportation is concerned, it's quite simple. As I said, we definitely need to focus on road transportation, but we also need to do it in a way that will help people. A number of reforms are already included in existing subsidy programs, such as the incentives for zero-emission vehicles, or iZEV, program, for electric vehicles. We're proposing various measures to improve it and make it fairer by including a cap on annual income to be eligible for subsidies, for example. This would direct the money to the people who really need the subsidy to buy a clean vehicle. We also feel that low-income families should get higher subsidies.
Another example of what we're recommending is a subsidy for electric-assist bicycles, which have enormous potential for getting people out of their cars and trucks. We have a pilot program called Velovolt that's been very successful. We lend electric-assist bicycles to organizations. Eighty-two per cent of people who try electric-assist bikes want one to travel between home to work.
There are truly all kinds of avenues to explore. We really need to get over this dependence on cars.