I am familiar with…

I am familiar with transportation research. This proposed policy tells me you have not done any research in the area, because if you had you would know about concepts like induced demand. Or perhaps you would have considered the limitations of using Statistics Canada commute data to characterize the cycling participation of the population - you should know better than to assume that commutes capture every type of cyclist I.e. someone riding their bike to grocery shopping or a dentist would not be captured. Your intentional blindness, or unintentional ignorance, demonstrates that either way you are a deeply unserious government undeserving of the power you have to make these policies. This terrible proposal will contribute to the deaths of multiple people who use a bicycle, if it moves forward. Please do better and think about equity. Do not continue with this useless piece of legislation that will not only harm cyclists, but make automobile traffic much worse.