Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for coming. It's great to hear the perspectives of municipalities both micro- and medium-sized, and still quite small, I guess, compared to some of the places we visit. This brings me to one of the questions that I'm trying to figure out an appropriate answer to.
In the Canada Post service charter there are two sections that deal with how far or near people need to be to their post office. There's article 10 that talks about 98% of Canadians being within 15 kilometres of a post office, and then, of course, that extra 2% could essentially be all of rural Canada, when you start to think about it. Then it goes down. Then there's been a moratorium for a couple of decades now on changes to those post offices, from closing down.... There's been no discussion about opening new ones up.
Maybe Ms. Brown you can talk to me a bit about the communities that don't currently have post office access, how far they are from their nearest communities, and whether or not those communities are growing and should be considered opportunities for an expansion of post office locations.