With respect to blind people, as I mentioned, since 1898, Canada had a clear obligation under the Universal Postal Convention, to which it is a signatory. It's not necessarily a statutory obligation, but nevertheless, we've had this obligation under a treaty that we have been a party to for more than 100 years.
When it comes to libraries, preferential rates for libraries were set out in law in 2013, while a private member's bill was adopted to enshrine this principle in the legislation. Prior to 2013, libraries enjoyed preferential Canada Post interlibrary loan rates since 1939. Even though we're making this change to give Canada Post more flexibility to set postage rates, it doesn't change anything to this public policy, which was in place before 2013, which has been in place since 1939, and that will not change.
Similarly, for example, members can mail letters to their constituents and constituents can communicate with their members for free, even though legal protection for this mail free of postage is not enshrined in legislation. This public policy has been in place for decades and will remain in place, even though, strictly speaking, it has no statutory protection.
I want to be very clear on that: These preferential rates for blind people have been in place for decades, the same way the free service for members has been in place, and it will remain in place after the adoption of the Budget Implementation Act.