That's definitely true. Whether you're talking rural or urban areas, if you look at it from the perspective of official languages, every year the numbers show that service in both official languages is lacking in private outlets. Our members in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers who provide retail services tell us that most of the complaints they get from the customers are about the franchises down the street.
Let's just look at the jobs. Look at the jobs in the Shoppers Drug Marts: minimum wage, no pension, precarious work versus good-paying jobs with a pension, retirement, uniforms. I won't get into all the details. This has been happening for a few decades now.
That's good for the economy and that's good for society all across this country. We have enough precarious jobs out there. To this day, it's a major problem in Canada and many parts of the world. If you take away door-to-door delivery everywhere, that's another 8,000 jobs gone. That's 8,000 people in the future who will be in precarious work instead of good jobs. That is not good for the Canadian economy.