Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, all, for coming today and for your impassioned defence of Canada Post and the important role it plays in rural life.
We've seen that across the country there is a real difference in the way in which Canada Post is used by different communities, urban, suburban, rural, and far rural communities like your own.
My first question goes along the lines of your notion around the profits and then how Canada Post has been managed. It seems to me that we've lived now through a few years of the postal transformation, the sort being centralized, a certain number of community mailboxes. Doesn't management deserve some credit for having helped generate these profits in a downturn in the use of letter mail delivery? Hasn't the transformation actually allowed these profits to be earned?
This is a question for Lynda and Alex, who wanted to raise profit as one of the key points in their address.