Transport committee  I think whatever formula that comes up, or that you would decide we have--if you even decide that--I have one suggestion. We applied for Building Canada, and let me tell you, the paperwork you go through as a small municipality to get that fund is almost as much as what you get.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, transit in rural Alberta does not respect boundaries. I'll use Lloydminster as one example. The citizens of Lloydminster interreact. I would suggest that a lot of our rural citizens travel through 10 or 15 municipalities to get to where they need to go, whether it's for health or whatever, so I would suggest that we--the federal, provincial, and municipal governments--are all here to support the one taxpayer.

Transport committee  In Alberta they've decided they want to cut it, so it has been done. They are hoping that entrepreneurs will come forward and contribute. But in certain areas, the rural and remote areas of our provinces, it is not a lucrative operation. In order for us to ensure the rural side is taken care of as well as the urban side, we need to somehow come up with a formula that best suits those areas and put it into a national transportation study that will look at how we can do that.

Transport committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities. Thank you for having me here today. My name is Carolyn Kolebaba, and I am the vice-president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties, the AAMDC.