Could I just jump in on one quick point to validate? I found it ridiculous that they couldn't continue rural mail for every single house. They've been doing it for years. I thought it was crazy, and it sounded like a lot of baloney. Minister Merrifield had arranged for me to go out with Canada Post folks, not half an hour from Parliament Hill, to see it for myself. There are some areas of the country where, with the topography, these are not small rural roads any more. They're now major thoroughfares and we have cars zooming by. I said we'll just put the mailbox a hundred feet off the road so that we can maintain delivery. When we went out to actually physically do it, they couldn't even get up the road because their road wasn't plowed.
I would encourage all members, if you have any interest in this file, to take Canada Post up on their offer and physically go and see it. I didn't believe it at all until I physically went to see it. Forget the legal consequences and the moral consequences. I couldn't live with myself if some postal carrier was killed because we made some sort of political edict that at all cost this had to be maintained. I would encourage members to do it. When you see it yourself, you really understand it.