Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to start my questioning with Ms. Petrunic from the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium.
I do believe that we need more public transit as a substitute good, as a low-carbon alternative to vehicles. My question is this: How do we do that?
I know that your organization, Ms. Petrunic, is talking about innovations to improve and make public transit more carbon efficient. My concern is that there, perhaps, isn't enough governance research being done on how we actually build public transit writ large. For example, in my riding in Calgary, we've had a public infrastructure project, the green line—which would have seen about 50,000 cars pulled off the road—frankly held up in a bureaucratic quagmire by Calgary city council for about 10 years.
Has your organization undertaken any research to see how those types of roadblocks could be overcome in order to see these types of projects actually built in the first place?