Mr. Bonin, first I want to apologize for any service disruption. I cannot tell you how important a matter this is for Canada Post, that Canadians anywhere in your constituency...that this should be laid at your door. I can only apologize.
In terms of what we can do to prevent it in the future, I can only tell you that there are 4 million rural points of call, Mr. Bonin--4 million. Only 850,000 of these rural points of call get service to the lot line. The other rural Canadians are picking up their mail at a post office, getting their mail in a superbox, or getting their mail in one of the green collective neighbourhood boxes that you sometimes see in cottage country, where eight or twelve households are coming together to an area.
When someone refuses to work, I assure you we don't get very much notice either. If I had more notice...that's what I am saying. If I had more notice, the disruption would not be as bad as it has been for your constituents, for example. But if I have notice.... What I'm doing is trying to figure out these 800,000 points of call that are getting lot-line delivery now, which is where this problem is concentrated. There's no issue around superboxes or getting the mail at post offices, because nobody's saying it's unsafe to go to the superbox or to the post office. It's only the lot-line delivery that people are saying is unsafe.
If I get some notice, I'm able to go out with regional and local officials. I'm able to say to the people who work in those areas “Can you go and look”--