I don't want to suggest that the federal government hasn't been heavily involved in funding many municipal transit projects; they have. But in general, they've been done as one-off infrastructure projects rather than having any overall coherent policy.
What I've tried to touch on in my presentation are areas that I believe are areas of federal expertise and jurisdiction that the provinces and the municipalities can't afford to create for themselves or areas that are in fact federal responsibilities such as taxation policies. The municipalities cannot even do what some municipalities do in the United States, which is use the retail sales tax to subsidize their transit systems. That can't be done here.
So some of the things I've mentioned with respect to taxation policies either on transit passes or on municipalities acquiring rail lines are things that I think the federal government could have a useful role in and should have policies.