Transport committee  —that's not something.... It's something right in the biography that I wrote up on this—

Transport committee  No, I didn't, because I had not completed the work on the study. I felt that this was not.... For me, it wasn't the best to do that at this—

Transport committee  I completed the work just at the end of September.

Transport committee  I don't recommend reducing mail delivery to three days a week. I think that's something Canada Post found out: that small business in particular was opposed to reducing mail delivery. I think that's important to maintain in our country, to maintain that delivery five days a week.

Transport committee  To introduce postal banking, it's a question of what services you introduce and how fast you introduce those services. To determine costs it's very difficult unless you're looking at a concrete plan, but just let me give you one example. In the United Kingdom, where they have a c

Transport committee  I think Canada Post has to adjust to some of the changes.

Transport committee  No, but the point is that the—

Transport committee  The post office is facing a problem that just about every industry faces, in that it has to adapt to changes in the way it does business. This is not different from other industries.

Transport committee  Do I have any time?

Transport committee  I think it was a terrible pity that the Conference Board report did not look at postal banking in detail as an option. It certainly has to be considered as one of the major options that most postal services in the world are using. We have to look at that.

Transport committee  Thank you for allowing me to present today. My name is John Anderson. I'm here representing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, for which I produced a recent report published in October 2013 entitled “Why Canada Needs Postal Banking”. This report, which I believe has be