No, my question was simply about your concurrence on that. Okay, thank you.
Another observation I have regards a response from the minister, in a letter that I have quoted here:
The activities of international remailers cost Canada Post millions of dollars each year and erodes the Corporation's ability to maintain a healthy national postal service and provide universal service to all Canadians.
I think that's where I'm coming from as a representative. You're doing your job. You've got an industry that you're representing. Quite frankly, some might call this a loophole that just wasn't known and noted. The courts have decided that you have a minister who is responding, and it's hard to take issue with the fact that his observation and responsibility as a minister are that this is going to erode the corporation's ability to maintain healthy national postal service. So I appreciate your point of view and what you do. You're there to represent the industry. If I were you, I'd be doing the same thing.
Our responsibility here is to protect service to Canadians. So when Ms. Bourque points out that this is going to erode rural mail service, I think that's the connective tissue, the dots here. Eroding the fiscal capacity of a corporation is like having someone come in and carve out some money from your members. You might be concerned about that. That's really what I see happening here.
Ms. Bourque, is your concern the connection between industry and the rural mail service? The minister has stated here in the letter dated July 25, 2006, that this will erode Canada Post's ability fiscally.