Our recommendation in the report was to, over the next few decades, allow VIA, for example, to invest in its own roadbed. One of the real barriers to an efficient passenger rail system is the requirement to use the same tracks that the freight trains use, which creates scheduling issues and reliability issues. Basically crowding each other on the same track probably creates safety issues as well.
We think that government can perhaps through public-private partnerships or through providing the right regulatory and investment incentives play an important role in enabling the private sector to invest more in passenger rail. It's a high-density urban future. In our view, it's not a future that will take off in terms of long-distance passenger rail. That's simply not going to happen. It's uneconomic and, to the degree that long-distance passenger rail does happen, it tends to be tourism related.
Government needs to play a bigger role, but in the high-density regions.