Thank you very much.
In previous years' budgets, Vote 1, i.e., payments made to the Canada Post Corporation for special purposes, has been very stable. This vote went from $22 million in 2019 to $22,210,000 in 2020‑21, and has been renewed from one fiscal year to the next.
I know that the Canada Post Corporation is an independent Crown corporation that makes its own investments, amongst other things, but it has to compete with the Amazons, UPS's and FedExes of this world in terms of price, access, speed of access, infrastructure, and so on.
How is it possible that we are only investing $22,210,000 for special purposes in our postal corporation, when the federal government has concluded contracts with Amazon Web Services to the tune of $24.6 million last year and $15.7 million between 2011 and 2020? The Canada Border Services Agency alone has signed contracts worth $12 million with this company.
How is it that we are investing less money in our own Crown corporation to bring it up to speed than we are in an American company?