This is one of the reasons that the federal and, ideally, provincial governments occupying a larger share of the upfront cost allow us to accelerate investment. Expecting municipalities to catch up or stay abreast at one-third, one-third, one-third, while the country is increasing its level of investment, will be challenging. That's why we've advocated for more like a 40-40-20 split.
As you will recall from your time in Alberta, at one point the provincial government here was funding up to 67¢ on the dollar for transit. We've seen 100¢ dollars and 80¢ dollars in Ontario. Prior to federal investment, provinces were investing, in some cases, even much more generously. Now that we have, in most parts of the country, alignment of three orders of government, we have a sustainable pathway forward, recognizing if we're going to exponentially increase the size of the inventory, it still falls to municipalities to manage 100% of the cost of operations and maintenance. In fact, a bit of additional federal flexibility to provide dollars for up to 50% for major maintenance is also helpful because it starts to reduce the burden on municipalities for that long-term operating and maintenance.