Tom Kmiec at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I am an MP from western Canada. So I am going to practise my French today.

Thanks to all the witnesses for their contributions to our work.

Mr. Esch, my question concerns the Canadian postal service protocol and the moratorium on rural post office closings.

The committee has learned that several rural regions have their post offices in community centres. I understand that. However, there are still rural post offices in Saskatoon, Brampton, and Halifax. As a result of a moratorium, Canada Post may not close post offices in those cities in order to reorganize its service.

What do you think of a suggestion that the committee might make, that post offices should be closed in regions that have become urban—Canada has urbanized in the past 20 years—to fund postal service in the rural regions?