Thank you.
It's understandable that the context of this committee study is Greyhound pulling out of Canada, but as you quite readily noted, it's not as if we had a great passenger bus service system for all regions of the country before Greyhound. This was a concern that had been raised through FCM, through our rural forum, for many years before Greyhound left Canada.
I really think it does require being made a political priority at the provincial level and at the federal level, and that there be a concerted effort to coordinate regional services, as Mr. Cassidy mentioned, and to commit long term to funding—