Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for joining us today.
I want to start with Mayor Brown.
Mayor, thank you for joining us and providing your opening remarks. It was quite eye-opening to me, some of the comments you made. As for your ambitious goals in reducing GHG emissions by 2050 by 80%, thank you for your leadership in doing that.
Now, $400 million from the CIB to electrify buses.... We had Mayor Sohi on last week, who talked about substantial investments to his city. I know my city of Calgary has also seen a substantial investment. If I add all those up, just on electric buses, that's over a billion dollars. I believe those three investments would be more than the previous Harper government's P3 program just on electric buses. That's a substantial investment.
Why did the City of Brampton decide to engage with the CIB?