Mr. Chair, transit in rural Alberta does not respect boundaries. I'll use Lloydminster as one example. The citizens of Lloydminster interreact.
I would suggest that a lot of our rural citizens travel through 10 or 15 municipalities to get to where they need to go, whether it's for health or whatever, so I would suggest that we--the federal, provincial, and municipal governments--are all here to support the one taxpayer. The assistance that's needed in those areas is a formula that I think in rural areas should be addressed in terms of their geographic size, their lack of population, and their necessity. With our seniors, when we questioned them and did a survey, they had the five As: availability, affordability, acceptability, accessibility, and adaptability. So somehow we need to come up with something that's not a cookie-cutter solution.
You asked about the gas tax and whether we should add on there. I would defer to you as a more knowledgeable person on that one, but I think the formula, however it is created, definitely has to respect the rural distance factor. I know it's a tough one, but--