Thank you very much for your presentation. I think the visual aspect of it is something we should all be showing our communities. I think it really hits home. As I indicated, I'm from a rural area, and a lot of the presentation was focused on urban areas. So when it comes to first nations, when it comes to places like Chapleau that can't even get a bus service there, we know that the governments of the day did drop the ball, because the people in these communities are trying to get the services they need. And they can't get them at home, of course, so they try to travel and there aren't a lot of services. Now Chapleau does have the Budd car, but again, the timing is not really that great and it's still problematic, especially in the wintertime.
You mentioned seniors. One of the communities in my riding is Elliott Lake, but whether it's Wawa, or White River, or Manitouwadge, again, there are problems there, because even when there was a bus service, it still wouldn't go in.
So I think certainly the hindsight is that, yes, we have to go down that road. There was downloading that was talked about us well. Let's face it, the downloading onto the municipalities was a result of what the federal government did as well with the lack of transfer payments and the cutbacks in some of the transfer payments at some points.
You said sooner better than later, and we're already way behind. I think we've had the discussions. There have been tons of discussions. There are tons of reports out there. Tony Martin had done a lot of work on rail and other forms of transportation.
Given the timeframe we are in right now and the importance this is going to have because we know the price of gas is high—I'm still confused as to why the price of gas is so high in Europe given the fact that they do have a really good rail transit system there—what would you like to see happen in whatever timeframe? Could you design that for me?