As part of that, lifting the constraints that it's been operating under is really the first step. For instance, when you look at the rural moratorium, I note that in reports from this committee it was often highlighted that this needed to be updated. It will allow for Canada Post to look at ways to be more efficient. This moratorium was implemented in 1994 and hasn't changed one iota in the last 30 years. As I've highlighted, some of the rural post offices that are included in the moratorium and that may have been rural 30 years ago are now, by any stretch of the imagination, suburban, and in some instances, urban.
I was given an example in B.C. of a plot of land where a post office sits that is covered under the moratorium. Hundreds of housing units could be built, but nothing can be done because the moratorium is in place. Lifting it will allow this flexibility and will allow Canada Post to rightsize itself given the changing nature of the letter-mail business.
Canada Post is not alone in this situation. If you look at the situation in the U.S., France and Denmark, they're stopping letter-mail service altogether, for the most part, except in certain instances on islands. The change that we're announcing is the initial step that is definitely needed to stop the bleeding, because $10 million a day, by any stretch of the imagination, is not reasonable or acceptable to Canadians. Lifting these constraints will allow for the corporation to find ways to rightsize itself.