Yes. Thank you.
I'll answer in French. I'm very bad in English.
Clearly, there is a huge inconsistency and difference between rural and urban needs, and those needs are not handled in the same way.
Jason Roberts says he serves a catchment area of 250,000 people. This is not the case in our network and in many places in Quebec. Instead, we go from towns of 3,000, 5,000 or 10,000 people to a town of 40,000 people, 80 or 100 kilometres in the centre of our region. That's a whole other problem.
The needs of 10 people, from Ville-Marie, La Sarre or elsewhere, who have to go to the oncology department of the Rouyn-Noranda Hospital are as important as those of any person living in the Montreal or Ottawa region. Yet there are needs that are not being met.
Curiously, despite its good will, the federal government has made some decisions—just anecdotally—that are a bit sad. In its first term, this government announced millions and billions of dollars for infrastructure, in Montreal for the Réseau express métropolitain, in Ottawa for OC Transpo, or in Toronto or Vancouver. This money is very much geared towards urban areas. This is normal because that's where the population is concentrated.
On the other hand, however, in 2017, the federal government announced the abolition of the tax credit for public transit. Yet, we need to talk to the users about it, because they are the ones who need it. In rural, less populated areas, people need this measure—