Thank you, Madam Chair.
Yes, we've had a lot of questions about rural delivery. I've heard you say that it is quite possible to maintain door-to-door, or in essence mailbox-to-mailbox, rural delivery and protect people's health and safety, and that one needn't be sacrificed for the other.
But what I have also heard you say is that there is the potential to undermine rural delivery by privatizing some of the more profitable, lucrative urban mail services. I'm wondering if you could talk a bit more about that, because it seems to me that the universal provision of Canada Post's services is something that was put in place by our grandparents, I suppose, or great-grandparents, when they set up this service as a nation-building exercise, with the provision that everyone in the country, no matter where they lived, would have equal access, at the same price, to mail service.
We've heard that with these community boxes it is already being undermined to some degree. Can you describe a little more fully your concern about the potential to undermine rural delivery service through the privatization of the lucrative urban service?