Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition signed by more than 250 people from Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska, a town in my riding, who want to save their post office. The petitioners mention that the Liberal government imposed a moratorium in 1994 on rural post office closures.
The people of Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska are afraid of losing this asset, which is important to the future of a small community. This small town needs infrastructure and needs its post office, and the petitioners are calling on the federal government to maintain the moratorium on post office closures.
The people are very nervous, because they found out that the government had decided to close some post offices on short notice.
The people and the Liberal Party are asking that the moratorium be maintained so that people continue to be served by our rural post offices.