Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witness for appearing here, as well as for his presentation.
I'm feeling a little provocative here at the moment. I'm going to phrase a question, because I would be interested in gauging your response to it.
Is the federal government, on the question of urban public transit, being asked in some respects to maybe bail out municipalities for cumulative decisions when they have failed to properly densify their municipalities, or are we being asked to pick up the slack or address the budgetary pressures of municipalities because provinces have downloaded? Is it fair to say we're now being asked to sort of come in and pick up the slack for these governments?