The only thing I might add with respect to Bill C-11, is that if you're talking about federal funding, currently in Vancouver most of the funding—and the relationship would come, of course, from senior levels of government—does or does not get allocated depending on the viability, in this case, of a commuter rail project. So if this were to be enacted in legislation, any contribution by the federal government would benefit, so it's not going to railway margins; it's going to minimize the capital needed and maximize the service output. That's the intent of the framework here, regardless of which level of government—provincial, municipal, federal—would benefit from a better value relationship.
On October 24th, 2006. See this statement in context.