Mr. Speaker, the NDP understands the need of all cities right across the country, big and small, for federal transit funding.
The NDP recognizes the critical place that cities hold in the economy of our country. It recognizes that public transit is critical infrastructure from an environmental, economic and social perspective to the 80% of Canadians who live in urban communities.
It is our intention to ensure that the federal government does its share to ensure that cities across the country get the funding required to build public transit to serve the people of those cities and to serve the economies of those cities.
Most certainly, we will be increasing transit funding over what the current government proposes to do when we form government.