Mr. Speaker, I will tell you who is monitoring the situation. It is families with businesses like the Lorenzes in northern Alberta and thousands of family businesses like them.
This family decided to go into the mail order book business and to pay for it they mortgaged their own home. All they had to do was work hard and it would pay off for them, or so they thought. But then along came the postal strike. The Lorenzes could now lose their business, their dream and even their family home. So this kind of answer is not good enough.
Let me ask the government, which is monitoring this whole thing so clearly, when and what does it have to say to these thousands of people whose very lives are affected by this postal strike?