Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I want to begin by thanking you for inviting me to appear before the Standing Committee on Finance to speak to Bill C-60, an act to implement certain provisions of the federal budget, which was tabled last March. The Canadian U

Finance committee  Yes. It's an extremely important measure. As we mentioned, predictability and stability are two criteria that are really important for planning and transit projects as well. When you look at the national picture in Canada since 2006, it's over $2 billion that went to public tran

Finance committee  I'll leave that to you.

Finance committee  We work closely together, yes.

Finance committee  The tax credit is one of the measures that is favouring and rewarding good behaviour and taking public transit.

Finance committee  It is working for those who are using public transit, sure.

Finance committee  I've personally been with CUTA for three years.

Finance committee  Yes, we do collaborate on a regular basis.

Finance committee  We know that the ridership is going up in Toronto for sure.

Finance committee  It is an important one for sure.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, first I want to thank you for the invitation to appear today before the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. We are very pleased to have this opportunity to express our views in the context of your study on updatin

Transport committee  You would look at the contribution on a project. I don't have the numbers right now, but we could do this on a project-by-project basis.

Transport committee  Certainly. Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are two things that are of note concerning that billion dollars. First of all, it is added to investments that were already announced, involving Building Canada and the other investments. Moreover, this is the first time that we have a fede

Transport committee  It's $18 billion for the next five years.

Transport committee  When we survey our members, we ask what their plans are for rehabilitation and replacement and for expansion of ridership. Then we ask them what portion of that has funding committed to it and what portion would need additional funding. Really, the gap is the $18 billion. What w