Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our guests. It has been very enlightening.
The very first key finding in the document the transport department has provided is that the transportation sector lacks coordinated strategies to promote innovation. There is a “need for better information sharing, improved coordination of investments, and greater public and private leadership”.
I think we agree on this side of the table that strategies need to be better coordinated better. In fact, our last study was supposed to be about a national public transit strategy to encourage exactly what you're talking about—improved coordination of investments, greater public and private leadership—but unfortunately, at the end, it was turned into a national public transit study rather than a strategy.
Can you comment on what you would see as an example of a strategy the federal government could initiate and lead in both the transportation sector generally and in public transit specifically?