Well, we certainly have recommended building a partnership with Service Canada, because they are front-line providers. They are federal civil servants.
I can't speak for my colleagues, but I'm not really interested in having to assume the role in an emergency situation, because I also need these people to vote for me. If I start to give them a hard time about their identity.... That's not something I want to be dealing with. I'd rather they go to Service Canada, but they can't do that right now.
In terms of Service Canada and where we stand in northern Ontario, you're speaking about unprecedented access to passport service. That was the quote. And we've heard about the chips and the facial recognition and everything else. Yet again, what we're dealing with in northern Ontario is the fact that as of March 31 we have no more passport service in Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Kirkland Lake, New Liskeard, northwestern Ontario, Rainy River, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, and Wawa, because you cancelled the service that was being delivered through Service Ontario. People simply have no place to get their passports.
How can you come here and tell us that people are getting unprecedented access to passport service when people in my riding and all across northern Ontario are now finding they have no access to passport service because you cancelled the service that Service Ontario was providing?