Thank you, Chair.
Thank you very much to our witnesses.
I appreciate that my Liberal colleague earlier tried to explain the government's position. I would offer, in friendly reply, that he's welcome to cross the floor and actually speak on behalf of the government. It might be a shorter route for him than what his future path looks like. Having said that.... It's all in fun.
First of all, I want to start with the question of transit planning or the decision-making about.... Let's take Montreal, since you're here to speak on behalf of public transit in that region. You're asking for federal funding. That's one of your recommendations. There are several ways in which you are looking at that. Would you accept a greater role for federal transit planning or are you suggesting to us that regional or local decision-making should be the way to plan transit priorities for Montreal?