Given the announcement our minister made last Thursday for the independent panel to look at all options, we are participating in that process and at this stage we are keeping all options open. The right way is to look through the lens of affordability, financial sustainability, opportunity to grow revenues, and opportunity to be able to discharge our liabilities in the pension plan. Earlier it was mentioned that the solvency deficit of our pension plan is larger than the entire revenue of the corporation. As you can see, the challenges we are facing are quite large, quite monumental.
We have also made progress on addressing some of those challenges and we demonstrated that, by using our core competencies, by using our core skills of delivering parcels. Many Canadians may not remember the famous Eaton's catalogue, the mail order. In fact, The Hockey Sweater, the famous book that has been read to every child in our country, was based on the mail order business of the 1800s and 1900s. Those core skills have now given us an opportunity to look at a growth area that we embarked on five years ago, and it has so far proven very effective. In fact, it was much easier for our employees to implement and embrace, and it is demonstrated when large customers like Amazon compliment us during peak period deliveries in the Christmas season, in the holiday season.
We are looking at opportunities so far that have been part of our core strength, but as we move forward, the independent panel will be looking at ideas and suggestions, and our goal remains to work with them on making sure those ideas are evaluated appropriately with good, sound, fact-based decisions, and we welcome that process.