Yes. Well, I'm sure that people in Penticton, B.C., might want to have Sunday service. They currently have Sunday service on only one of their lines.
I think the advantages of having a public transit strategy would be, as you said, to share best practices in innovation and high-quality standards across the country, whether you're a large centre or a small centre. Coming up with a permanent investment plan, a federal funding mechanism, working with all levels of government, and establishing accountability measures would mean that all areas in Canada would have the same advantages that Metrolinx has in terms of the partnerships it has built and would benefit from the knowledge of Metrolinx.
I'll look at another city, Cochrane, Alberta, the second-largest and fastest growing centre in the country. They want bus rapid transit to Calgary. Mayor Truper McBride has said that considerable work needs to be undertaken on both the functional and economical aspects of transit. He went on to say, “A vibrant city is based on a strong, vibrant transit system and in every case those are [paid] for, in part, by senior orders of government”. He said, “Cochrane is a difficult community for transit because [what] I'd call...poor planning in the past has led to this very pod-like community, and transit doesn't operate too well because there is backtracking...”.
If we had a national public transit strategy, do you think Metrolinx would be able to contribute a lot of its knowledge in terms of transit planning to the rest of the country, to other agencies across the country?