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Victoriaville Cabano USA Mont-Louis Rexton Notre-Dame-du-Lac St. John's New Richmond Donnacona Salisbury Lévis Paspébiac Summerside Degelis Montmagny Percé Shediac Edmunston Pointe-à-la-Croix St-Leonard Port-Daniel Moncton Airport Grand falls Rimouski Borden Perth-Andover Rivière-au-Renard Crapaud Montmagny Moncton Sackville Florenceville Sainte-Anne Cornwall Trois-Pistoles -des-Monts Woodstock Charlottetown Fredericton Salisbury Amherst Fredericton Airport Sussex Sydney Hampton Oromocto Quispamsis Oxford North Sydney St John Wagmatcook Whycocomagh Port Hawkesbury Truro Antigonish New Glasgow Acadia University New Minas Stewiacke Lower Sackville Wolfville Hantsport Falmouth Elmsdale Kentville Halifax Airport Dartmouth Halifax Hubbards Chester CANADA Mahone Bay Bridgewater Lunenburg USA The Honourable Omar Alghabra PC, MP Minister of Transport 330 Sparks Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N5 Email: [email protected] March 1, 2021 Support for the Coast-to-Coast Bus Coalition Dear Minister, Transport Action Canada welcomes and supports the recommendations of the Coast-to-Coast Bus Coalition. We commend leaders in the motorcoach industry for their efforts to preserve essential services throughout the difficulties of the past year, and for rising to the challenge of preparing for an inclusive and robust recovery by envisioning the revival of a comprehensive network of bus services and connections with VIA Rail passenger train services, which leaves no Canadian behind. Mobility poverty is the root of many thorny public policy challenges. Access to healthcare has been one of the most critical uses of the public transport network over the past year. It also connects students to colleges and universities. Where regional public transport exists, it connects people with new job opportunities, and ensures employers have access to more potential employees, attracting investment that would not otherwise flow and creating more opportunities for young people to thrive in their home communities. Where public transport is absent, it is not just opportunities that are lost. Following the publication of Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, our federal government has an undeniable moral imperative to swiftly restore an essential network of safe mobility that reaches all communities, large and small, from coast to coast to coast. Sustainable public transport is also key to tackling the climate crisis. Federal reassumption of regulatory stewardship can ensure the financially sustainability needed for service providers to confidently invest in modern, efficient, accessible, and robustly winterized vehicles, while ensuring end-to-end connectivity in a single fare transaction, creating an attractive alternative to less sustainable modes of transport. An integrated common-carrier package service network would support small business and reduce the cost of living, particularly in rural and remote communities. It could also be leveraged to reduce duplication of economic and environmental costs for CanadaPost and other courier services. For too long, the costs imposed on other levels of government and on Canadians of public transport network cuts have been underestimated. The loss of a motorcoach route may leave many citizens paying hundreds of dollars for taxi rides to reach medical appointments, requiring days of volunteer driver effort, or require single-passenger shuttle services to be provided from the health budget instead. We have also seen other arms of government establishing limited services for specific