Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We're on the same page in terms of the fact that we're so far behind the rest of the world. I've done a lot of research into where some of the rest of the world is with regard to the provision of transit. Most of the transit systems in Europe and a lot in Asia are already electric transit systems. They've already decided that fossil fuels are not the way to go. But we in Canada are still way behind.
In addition to improving productivity, there's an opportunity here, with electric vehicles, to change the nature of how we transport ourselves. Right now, generally speaking, people get in cars and turn them on, and they're consuming fossil fuels, or they get on a train and they're consuming fossil fuels. I think there's a role for the federal government to be shaping an electrification strategy for the entire public transit system, including long-distance rail. What do you think?