Because I think there's a role for the federal government in this, and I think there's a responsibility for the federal government in this, in servicing transit and its needs. I've lived in rural Saskatchewan all my life. I'm quite capable of driving where I have to go for what I need to do.
This hits really close to home, and Mr. Chair, I hope I can get through this. We were very fortunate that when our son was born 26 years ago he was very healthy. Three weeks later, a sister-in-law and brother-in-law had a handicapped child born in the city of Saskatoon. He's still in a wheelchair, and it has been 26 years.
If that had been our son, I would have had to make a decision as to whether I was leaving the farm or whether my son was leaving our house, and that's an awful thing to say. Or I would have had to equip a bus and I would have had to take him to a special school.
He is in the city of Saskatoon and is being picked up every day by a bus that takes him to a special school, where he is educated and is working in the community today.
Those are the things that have to be looked at.