Thank you, Mr. Grenier.
The tone has really changed with the new U.S. administration, and President Biden is really showing leadership. In January, he called for the full electrification of the USPS postal service, and things are moving forward. In March, a call for bids was won by Oshkosh Corporation for the eventual manufacture of 165,000 vehicles over 10 years.
Canada Post's strategy is to use hybrid vehicles—an old technology—when we should be using electric vehicles. We had already done a pilot project for electric vehicles, and we are doing a new one. At the end of January, the employer announced that it was aiming for 10% of light-duty vehicles to be hybrid. We are still at the pilot stage for electric vehicles.
A pilot project will also be conducted for charging stations, which will be installed in three mail processing centres and at head office. In total, nine charging stations will be installed across Canada. That isn't enough, and we can do much better.
We were talking about existing potential. According to Natural Resources Canada, the current infrastructure includes 6,050 public charging stations. Our post offices would allow us to double that supply. Here's a striking statistic: there are more post offices in Canada than there are Tim Hortons and McDonald's restaurants combined. So we have an opportunity to show leadership and lead the way, and that's the message we want to send.