Mr. Chair, may I just quickly respond to that?
That's not what's happening. I'm not talking about routes that have become high-volume because of growth in the GTA that are being discontinued. I'm talking about rural routes, gravel roads, side roads, and concession roads, which see no more than 30 or 40 cars a day, roads where mothers are walking their dogs and their baby carriages because there is so little traffic. These are being deemed unsafe. Only a handful out of the 840,000 mailboxes in this country have been assessed. On the current trends, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of rural mailboxes that will be deemed to be unsafe and to be pulled out of existence. We're not talking about the occasional mailbox that's been poorly positioned on the side of a busy highway, or that is on a route that has a substantial increase in traffic. People need to know we are talking about the side road going through a bucolic pasture where there's very little traffic. These mailboxes on these routes are the ones that are being deemed unsafe.
So I don't accept the premise that rural mail delivery is rosy right now. Because if this is going to be assessed on all the remaining routes in this country, we're looking at hundreds of thousands of mailboxes that are going to be discontinued.