Okay, on flexibility for choice, you don't want the federal government deciding on which projects to fund. You want that to be left to a different level of government. If I can go a little further, you said that decisions should be made closest to the people. I don't disagree with you on that.
All of these things argue for exactly what many of us on this side of the table think, which is that this is regional, it's municipal, and it's provincial. At the end of the day, all the federal government is being asked to do, in exchange for letting everybody make all the decisions and do all the planning and everything in their own jurisdictions, is to fund this at a higher rate than it has been and in some sustainable fashion over the long term. That's the only thing I continue to hear through all of this.
Convince me that I'm wrong about that. I'm waiting for a really compelling argument as to why the federal government should be having a national public transit strategy. I've been struggling through a whole series of witnesses to come to where the federal government's responsibility and role are. I really think you guys are the perfect example of what the Government of Ontario should be doing with transit in its jurisdiction, which is to create something, do all the coordination, do all the planning.... They're paying the lion's share of that as well, as it's in their jurisdiction, and municipalities obviously have some limitations.
But at the end of the day, everybody's looking for a new funding source that doesn't force the provincial government to change its priorities in spending, to raise taxes, or to call on the municipalities to look outside of traditional property tax bases for tax increases on their level of government. That's what this sounds like to me: if we can tap into another pot of taxpayer money that hasn't been allocated, and it's at the federal level, let's go ahead and tap into that. Am I too cynical?