Yes, I have a few comments. Just to clarify, as someone who had to go door to door all last summer explaining the Liberal government's position on Canada Post, with many difficult conversations—even with parents of children on my soccer team, who worked for the postal service—we did not promise that we would roll back or reinstate door-to-door delivery. What we promised was that we would do exactly what we are doing here today, which is stopping the transformation initiatives at Canada Post, consulting with Canadians, finding a direction, and implementing that direction.
It faces two major challenges. What direction do we go? We have heard a great variety of views, from virtually privatizing the service to greatly expanding it. Also, then, how can we have a Canada Post that is given recommendations that it's actually capable of implementing? Is Canada Post able to implement the changes we're recommending? The question of what kind of Canada Post we want is a conversation about what kind of Canada we want. I would like to echo some of the comments that Mr. Kirk brought forward.
In terms of what the task force has brought us, it had a limited mandate. It was looking at what it could recommend from a self-sustainability standpoint, and it did a financial analysis. On our side of the table, we do not feel bound only by the recommendations or the options put forward by the task force report. All options are open to us: from reducing services to greatly expanding them. We have environment, rural broadband, access to markets, access to expertise, and Canada Post being the face of government in rural communities.
A simple question for Mr. Dachis would be this. When we talk about reducing labour costs, are you saying that we should only have the type of dystopian jobs that Mr. Kirk rails against, where employees have very few rights, very low wages, and poor working conditions, in order to leverage that type of sweat equity in our distribution system, or should we have a distribution system that allows working parents to raise families?