Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing here today.
I'm finding the latest rounds of questioning to be very informative. Of course I'm sitting here thinking to myself, what are the components of a national public transit strategy? We're called on to do a study, and nobody has really laid out any for us yet. We now find out there are no international examples of national transit policies. The opposition, who primarily wanted this study, haven't laid out, at least in the initial meeting here, what they think a national public transit strategy should include. Maybe we're trying to do a study to find out what could be in that.
Let me see if I summarize your position clearly. It sounds to me as if in some respects you think the status quo is the only possible way forward in dealing with this issue. That is, that the federal government be involved in the capital investments through omnibus-type infrastructure programs that broadly address flexibility for infrastructure, including for public transit; that we address the issue of proportionality, if you will, through the division of a major infrastructure component versus a communities component; and this was within BCF's seven-year funding window.
Am I understanding your position to be that, or that a different model is possible here?