These were going to be part of my concluding comments, so I'm going to refer to my notes.
First and foremost, from a stakeholder point of view—and it's not only us, but the government research institutions and universities—I think we need to sharpen our innovation reflex. We need to dedicate people, resources, and budgets to developing new ways to create, produce, and sustain passenger rail transportation solutions.
The second point I would make is to call for an integrated road map to develop rail technologies, but over the long term, so going beyond the term of one government.
Associated with that, there are some short-term actions that need to be taken. Again, I'm talking about stakeholders in general, including the private sector, but also research institutions, universities, and governments at different levels.
The last point I would make is on the use of government procurement to support domestic innovation and manufacturing capabilities.
On that front, compared to what we've seen in other jurisdictions, the company thinks that Canada may be lagging. Use considerable public infrastructure investment as a policy lever to promote innovation in Canada. That goes to the way projects can be spec'd, for instance, to encourage the use of the smart technologies, clean technologies, that we have been talking about. The added benefit, besides innovation, is also the lever to improve the sustainability of our large cities in Canada.
Maybe there is room to spec projects based on performance-based requirements instead of very strict design requirements, for instance. This is one view that we would put forward for the committee's consideration.
I said it was my last point, but I have a real last point to make, and that goes back to the road map comment I made. I think an integrated framework, if possible, would include U.S. partners as well. It would make a lot of sense. I think we want key technologies to be usable on a larger scale in North America. Models exist, and one that I would point out is in Europe, where the European Rail Research Advisory Council plays this role.