Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the floor.
Thank you very much for coming today.
It's interesting to hear the different perspectives of rural Canadians and urban Canadians on the way they use their postal service and opportunities for additional revenue.
As you know, we've been tasked with growing the economy, protecting middle-class jobs, and ensuring that people have access, in the case of Canada Post, to a high level of service at a sustainable cost.
With respect to additional services that might be offered through Canada Post, the rural municipalities say that they would like to see partnerships with banks. When we hear from the urban ones, it's not something we've been hearing very often.
Can you speak a little bit about the appetite of your members for postal banking and whether there's some dividing line among smaller urban municipalities at which you feel they could probably use a banking service offered through the post office?