As far as the difficult choices we have put forward go, I totally understand that there are going to be areas where we are going to have to be more thoughtful and more careful in our deployment and implementation. These are difficult choices. We have a corporation that is facing an inflection point with the technology that's wiping out the very foundation it was built on. Between 1969 and 1975 mail volumes grew by a billion mail pieces. Between 2007 and 2012 mail volumes declined. There was an epic rise and an epic fall.
Canadians are saying, “We understand you have to make tough choices, but be mindful when you implement them that you provide the type of flexibility you have been able to provide to two-thirds of Canadians over three decades of dealing with seniors”.
I have one other comment, Mr. McGuinty. When I hosted those sessions, the seniors told me they wanted to be healthy and active in their life. I attended a City of Brampton session a couple of years ago totally unrelated to this topic, at which the city planning department was hosting a community consultation on how to get Canadians walking. The citizens and the seniors I spoke to want to be active. They want to be living fuller lives. So there is indeed a requirement for us to be mindful of the disability and mobility challenges to seniors, and we have robust processes in place, and we will accommodate as we learn about new challenges, just as we have done, but these were difficult choices.