Transport committee  To give another figure here, we know from experience that there are some private operators that stayed away because of those costs involved to provide services across provinces.

Transport committee  Certainly, yes.

Transport committee  Yes, certainly. Thank you for the opportunity. To start with, there are many of them. There is no time to list all of them here. One of them certainly would be the local municipalities' licensing fees. As you know, you need to have a business licence to do service in their city,

Transport committee  No. Sorry. It was more about the fact that we have to be in a lot of cities and towns, and every city and town that we service requires a licence. All those licensing requirements add up. They start at $150 or $250, but when you're serving 100 cities or maybe more, it does add up

Transport committee  That could certainly help a lot. I just want to name a few of those fees and expenses. They don't appear at first glance, but when you are into it, they start appearing. There's the IFTA requirement. You need to have special plates on your vehicles to do cross-border services

Transport committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thanks for the invitation to appear before the committee in view of its study on intercity transport by bus in Canada. Launched in 2017 in Saskatchewan as a fully Canadian-owned business—and it still is—following the departure of the Crown corpo