As I said, we'll be providing a full list of all of this as we go through it. Simply in the meantime, there's no critique of Canada's banking system, for example, or the banks. There's no analysis of the payday lender problem in this country. In their polling they didn't ask a basic question. They didn't ask people who live in communities without banks, but with post offices, whether they'd use a postal bank.
There's nothing on Canada Post's financial performance in 2016 and the fact that the corporation reported the highest January to June profits since 2010. The task force mentions that Canada Post has an $8.1-billion solvency deficit, but they don't talk about the going concern increase from $1.2 billion to $1.6 billion, and of course that's averaged over five years. The going concern surplus on the pension plan is actually $2.7 billion for last year alone.
Their use of information is very selective. The unnamed experts they quote from throughout the document need to be named. We need to see the analysis of how they actually came up with this stuff. We need to see the opinion of the experts who gave contrary information, because there were some. We know that they had experts they met with who talked about how postal banking could work very well.
They didn't mention the study we gave to them that indicates that the value of ad mail decreases with centralized delivery and decreases in the eyes of the customers. They tend to mention negative information and leave out positive information. We see this throughout the report.
We'll most certainly be providing the committee with these details at a later date. Our members will be engaging with this throughout the country once the committee goes on the road. You'll have an opportunity to hear from postal workers about all of our submissions in detail.