Thanks very much, Chair.
I will be splitting my time with Ms. Marie-Hélène Gaudreau and I will try to keep my intervention short.
During the moratorium, which has now been lifted, there were more than 600 closures of postal offices, many in rural and remote communities, often due to an inability to recruit a retired postmaster or the loss of retail space and the inability to replace it. For a senior in my riding, a closure of a rural post office could mean the difference between having to walk down to main street to get their mail as opposed to driving 20 or 50 kilometres down the road to another community.
Mr. Aubie, my question is for you.
As an advocate for all urban municipalities, regardless of their size, are you aware of any criteria or parameters that have been put in place to guide the closures of post offices designated as rural, despite the minister's verbal assurances that it will apply only to certain post offices?