Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister upholds the right to strike. When is he going to uphold the right of the Canadian public to its mail service?
Appeals to fiscal and economic sense do not get anywhere. Perhaps we can appeal to the jaded social conscience of the government. The disruption of postal service, as everyone in the House knows, falls most heavily upon the poor citizen. It falls upon the ordinary citizen who has no alternative except the post office.
In Montreal, the Old Brewery mission serving 1,200 meals a day is going to have a mail campaign—