Thank you for the question.
I want to be as clear as I possibly can on this. If the federal government wishes to take the tack of a tax credit for transit riders, we take no issue with that. In fact, we're perfectly able to support that and not stand in opposition to that position. If it benefits members in our community, which no doubt it does to a certain extent, that is completely acceptable to us.
I think everybody around this table understands that a tax credit to individuals will not assist a municipality in building a multi-million-dollar rapid transit system or a multi-million-dollar diamond-lane system within the city of Winnipeg, the city of Toronto, or the city of Edmonton. So the two have to stand, to a certain extent, in isolation from each other.
If someone were to suggest to our organization that instead of attributing infrastructure dollars to these types of projects in our cities and communities, we're going to take that money away and offset it against revenue that will not exist because of the tax credit, then I don't think we could support it.
I've never actually heard that, and I would hope that it would be a two-pronged approach. On the revenue side, potentially, we could see some benefits in terms of ridership, but it would in no way adversely affect the infrastructure dollars that were going to the cities in terms of program, because we simply couldn't fund those types of infrastructure projects.