Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Ettinger, for being here today.
You spoke, earlier, about the excitement of going to an unveiling of a stamp. In 2003, I did attend one of the unveilings of a stamp of your very first mail carrier for Canada, Pedro Da Silva. In 1693, he was the first in New France to deliver mail from Quebec City to Montreal. He was celebrated. He's actually on a plaque outside your office in Montreal. It was unveiled on the 50th anniversary of when the Portuguese first came to Canada through an arranged agreement with Canada and Portugal in 1953 at Pier 21 in Halifax. My dad was on that very first boat. The community was very excited about this anniversary stamp, as well as acknowledging this individual as having been a Portuguese immigrant back in 1693 to deliver mail. Thank you for that, and thank you for the acknowledgement for the community.
An official from PSPC came to this committee back on April 8, 2024, and talked about the similarities of the challenges Canada is facing to Australia's. The response was that we needed to be more creative. You spoke about the five recommendations you've made. One of them is to refresh the regulatory approval systems. I would be interested in knowing more specifically about what regulatory changes you would propose. Can you discuss the Australian model and how it's affected their services in rural communities?