Transport committee  Thank you very much. First of all, yes, I'm willing to share that information. Some of it is published. I have a 300-page Ph.D. thesis specifically on this topic. I interviewed 100 people. We've spoken to a big group of people about this. In summary, people have had to walk for

Transport committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think for the most part people are hitchhiking. In my research, I can give you very specific examples of people who walked two to three days to access health care. I spoke to such people. I have met them. Many people are using very unsafe

Transport committee  Absolutely. I'm happy to share that with you. I think I missed some of that.

Transport committee  I would say the federal government needs take a little bit of leadership and work in collaboration with the provincial governments to identify communities that are clearly missing out and make sure we have a national system so that wherever you live within Canada, you are not com

Transport committee  That's a good question. I think it's difficult to respond comprehensively, although I would say, in the case of a place like Saskatchewan, there was a well-established system for travelling through the bus system, so if, for example, there was a desire to create a public bus sy

Transport committee  For the most part, we can think of it in a geographical sense and we can also think of it in terms of communities of people. Geographically, we're talking about rural areas that have smaller populations; these are areas that often end up being neglected. I think the other groups

Transport committee  I think that there are many advantages to be gained from relying on a public model. The first is that we eliminate the prioritization of profit and we focus on other considerations that are quite important, like thinking of mobility as a human rights issue. When you think of pub

Transport committee  Thank you very much. That's a very good question. In the case of Saskatchewan, they actually rejected the federal government's offer of financial support in the context of the loss of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. In many ways, it was probably because the closure of

Transport committee  That's right. It was not very long after. STC was shut down in May of 2017 and by 2018, Greyhound withdrew from most of western Canada.

Transport committee  It's hard for me to respond for Greyhound, but I would respond more for the STC, which was serving Saskatchewan residents before Greyhound withdrew. At the time the STC was operating, it was serving 253 communities. That's a big number, compared to what Dr. Hanson was saying abo

Transport committee  No, unfortunately I don't have an estimate, but I know it would be far more than what it was assumed it would save. The STC's budget per year was not above $20 million. This $85 million was supposed to be the savings for a five-year period. In terms of the actual cost of restar

Transport committee  Thank you. Let me start by acknowledging that I'm joining you today from Saskatoon, on Treaty 6 territory, the traditional homeland of the Métis. I pay my respects to the first nations and Métis ancestors of this land. Over the past years, I've had the opportunity to conduct re