Transport committee  Thank you for the question. It has a tough one to answer because it depends on the project we're considering and there is often a tension between local needs and goals and wider community or national needs and goals, which need to be balanced. The federal government has a respons

Transport committee  Thank you. I was just listening to the end of the interpretation and then I was on mute. As we've seen over the last year and a half, social infrastructure is particularly important to how we function as a country. We need good hospitals and good schools, and we also need the ab

Transport committee  Thank you. Hopefully this will be better. The consequences of our transportation are not unavoidable things about modern society or economy. They are an echo of our infrastructure choices, particularly 70 years of a single-minded focus on building around the car. Going forward

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Chair and members of the committee, for having me today. My name is Shoshanna Saxe. I am a professor of civil and mineral engineering at the University of Toronto and Canada's research chair in sustainable infrastructure. What we build is the foundation of