Thank you for joining us today.
Where national transportation strategy is concerned, are we talking about a funding or a cultural problem? As the head of AMT, you had to deal with Yves Ryan, who was the mayor of my city at the time. Therefore, you know that there are certain realities related to development. We may sometimes feel that all we have to do is impose some sort of a tax. I just want to make it clear that I am not asking this question out of self-interest. As a federal MP, I am wondering whether the role of the Canadian government, as part of this national strategy, is not to focus more on promoting research and development and on facilitating cooperation rather than on advancing operations. When it comes to municipalities, operations are a provincial responsibility. Consequently, there may be no risk of overlap.
In addition, we can now no longer separate the reality of current infrastructure from that of future infrastructure without taking into account the money we will have to invest into transportation equipment, among other things. Am I to understand from your remarks that we should set up an additional dedicated fund to resolve the issue of infrastructure and equipment, for instance?
You may begin by answering those questions. I will have more later.