Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think it is important to point out that one reason Conservatives, for example, have not been subjected to the same kinds of requests by the BOIE to provide memos and opinions and everything else related to mailings is that the BOIE is organized in a partisan, majority government-dominated fashion.
I want to go to the Canada Post point. We had quite an amazing situation in the House recently. Last week, the Minister of Transport, despite constantly talking about being at arm's length from Canada Post and therefore saying, “Ask Canada Post; don't ask me” when we ask anything else to do with Canada Post, in response to a question planted by a Conservative MP, said:
...I also expect that those members will refuse to pay back Canada Post, and that is why today I spoke to the CEO of Canada Post to ensure that he understood what was happening. He does. He takes it very seriously. Canada Post will be developing a plan to deal with the situation.
I'm particularly grateful to the minister for making so clear, in such a ham-fisted way, that this is nothing but a political exercise, but the question here is did the BOIE ask the Minister of Transport to insert herself in this way by contacting the CEO of Canada Post?