I'll try to answer that as best I can.
It's a hard thing to quantify because of what Professor Perry mentioned: There's a lot of instability in the existing transit systems, particularly those smaller ones. They pop up and they disappear, particularly in rural areas. They lack profitability, so we see the start-ups and the disappearances. As I mentioned, we looked for, found and mapped over 100 examples of rural transit systems, including intercommunity transit systems, and what we found shows there are really distinct patterns.
In southern Ontario, in your riding, we see a larger number of these systems, and that's in large part because of what I would call the urban-adjacent more commuter-type economy. Through the collaboration, if you will, of many communities, you get economies of scale that you might not have in other rural places, so we tend to see more longer-term successful systems.
In B.C., there's a large number of rural regional systems, owing in large part to B.C. Transit. We don't see that prominence in other parts of the country. In the Prairies, we largely see a vacuum. There isn't anything, in part because of the absence of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company, which was shuttered. Or we see clusters like those in the Atlantic provinces that are volunteer driven. They obviously took a huge hit during COVID, with volunteers fearing for their safety.
I apologize for not being able to provide a specific figure, but what I will say is that there's a large number of them. They ebb and flow, but the stability we see in southern Ontario and British Columbia is due to, one, population, and two, this stable B.C. Transit system that we have in British Columbia.