Thank you very much for your question.
The funds allocated here are really meant to maintain services as they are today. Enhancements have been made over the last year and a half, which account for our increase in revenue and ridership. But they are marginal improvements at best because the fleet is getting older every day and there is congestion on the railways. Because we use shared railways that are mainly used, owned, and operated by freight companies, time to destination and on-time performance is deteriorating every day as well. Therefore, the usefulness and relevancy of the service is decreasing. That is why, more and more, it is a challenge to get more people to leave their cars behind and get on the train.
To go back to these funds, half of these funds are a re-profiling of an amount already approved. The other half is part of the infrastructure program improvements for the Montreal-Ottawa corridor. To answer your question, these funds maintain the service as is. We do not have any plans to reduce service.
We would like to improve service as we improve our financial picture by self-generating funds. We'd like to reinvest these funds in better service, in service enhancements, which might mean more stops or new frequencies. If the freight lines give us access to their infrastructure, we'd like to introduce new frequencies.
These funds keep us going as we are, and there are no current plans to reduce service.