Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I would like to extend greetings to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
We must thank the Liberal government for holding a public review of Canada Post so that its future can be discussed and solutions can be found. Instead of useless cutting, deregulation, not to say privatization in disguise, as the task force report seems to favour, we think that it is high time to launch a 21st-century postal service that is prosperous and that meets the needs of Canadians. In order to do this, we are proposing the creation of new sources of revenue such as from banking services and the numerous other avenues we mentioned in the brief we presented last week.
The Save Canada Post campaign represents more than 600 municipalities and regional municipalities that condemn Canada Post's five-point plan. It includes more than a hundred organizations, both Canadian and international, including First Nations, labour federations, retiree associations in various areas, associations of those with reduced mobility, federal and provincial political parties, even chambers of commerce, to name but a few. We have gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures from Canadians on petitions that also condemn the same five-point plan and that have been tabled in the House of Commons on several occasions in the last three years.
In addition, more than 600 municipalities all across the country have adopted another resolution supporting the establishment of a postal bank, as well as the addition of new services for Canadians. Before I give the floor to my colleague Magali Giroux, I would like to take some time to rectify certain information presented in the task force report and which, curiously, Canada Post also mentions.
That information, about the number of Canadians getting home delivery, indicates that 26% get their mail in the lobby of their buildings, 4% get it from a roadside box on their property and 27% get it at home. Those figures total 57%. The figure takes into account the 800,000 households that have been converted to community mailboxes. So more than half the population—not one third, as the task force states—get home delivery of their mail. In our view, receiving one's mail on one's property or in the lobby of one's apartment building is still definitely home delivery.
Thank you. I will now turn the presentation over to Mrs. Giroux.