Local municipalities are closest to the people so they know the lay of the land. There's no question about that. I don't care whether it's Yellowknife or Toronto. Neither of them can afford the kinds of transit services needed for today and in the future. We will soon be adding 16 million people to the population. By and large, that population is going to go into major city regions.
So this problem is going to get worse and worse. I covered only what you might call a top-10 list. Each one of those lines generates $1 billion a year in the greater Toronto area. We need to come up with $3 billion a year. It's a piece of cake to do it, but you have to have the political will. You have to have the people supporting it and you have to pick the right combination of tools.
Two other issues you might want to think about are income tax and sales tax. In Europe cities get a portion of the income tax. It goes straight to the cities and they fund transit and all kinds of needs that way. In lots of jurisdictions around the world, like the U.S., they get a dedicated piece of the sales tax—one cent, two cents, whatever. This grows with the economy, and it's very important in meeting the funding needs of these transportation systems.