Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming this morning so early to give us your thoughts on how the future of Canada Post can be improved.
We've heard from a lot of different witnesses who have taken a lot of different approaches. Some agree with the task force that the best way to manage the future is to contract costs, contract service, and try to deliver the service in different ways, such as partner and franchise.
We've also heard from people who say we need to grow, expand, improve the level and quality of service, and recognize the role of Canada Post as part of the e-commerce infrastructure of the country so that new and emerging businesses have access to customers in the country on the same basis that Americans have access to our customers or Americans have access to their own customers.
My first question would be for Ms. Sitlington. You've mentioned postal banking. We've heard an awful lot from people telling us that they don't want to see Canada Post enter into new lines of business where they don't have expertise and don't want Canada Post to compete with businesses that already exist in the markets because government doesn't have a good track record in entering new lines of business or competing with industry.
Could you comment on that for us, please?