Mr. Chairman, what we wanted to do with amendment BQ-8, was to broaden the definition of a suburban transit company.
Now, the government wants us to come back to the definition in clause 28 of the bill that defines a suburban transit authority without limiting this solely to census metropolitan areas. The problem is that there are suburban transit systems that go beyond the administrative areas determined by the Canadian government. Thus, we want to allow these companies, that might cover territory bigger than a census metropolitan area, to do this. This would also allow regional companies, which do not operate in urban regions, to use public transit and benefit from this legislation.
I think that the government's position is the same as ours. We concur with the propositions that were tabled. As you see, if we add to clause 28 the following words: "in an urban region or on territory served by a suburban transit authority", it could apply to other companies that have services elsewhere than in census metropolitan areas.