Local delivery has been cut from three days to seven to nine days. If the post office had a three-day delivery schedule it could be very different from what they're looking at now. If, rather than pushing away from door-to-door delivery and making it more difficult for Canadians to receive their mail at home, they put the focus on how they could increase their service for Canadians at home, maybe that would drive innovation in the way that's core to the mandate. I think that's really key.
We have a Canada Post act and a mandate for a crown corporation because we've deemed this to be a vital service. I would encourage committee members to direct the corporation to keep the focus on delivering the service. The better they do that, the more their projections will improve. There is a requirement for mail delivery in the country, even with the Internet age and all the rest. If anything, some people look at it as only increasing the demand for a reliable postal mail and package delivery service.
I look here in Windsor at the cross-border trade you mentioned. If we want to send something to Detroit, it goes to Toronto and ends up in Chicago. That's the antithesis of integrating our supply chains for further trade and development. The corporation has to look at ways to take advantage of these natural economies that are locally present and allow local businesses and local users to capitalize on that and get stuff across the border faster.