Mr. Speaker, I do not think the time of the House would allow me to prove to the hon. member that there is no cross-subsidization. Definitely I will send him the appropriate documents so he can see them.
In terms of future plans, I stated in my speech that after this thing is over, and naturally this is not something anybody takes pride in but we have to restore the service. There is nothing new, as a lot of people know. In the past when trying to modernize the system, management and labour relations at Canada Post have been very turbulent. We have to go to the root of the problem and definitely look at it in a different way which we have done. The last strike was in 1991. Each time the government gives a mandate to make sure that Canadians can rely on a universal postal service, the union reacts differently.
I hope once the Minister of Labour appoints a mediator that we can have normal relations which we have always sought to have with the administration of Canada Post. As I said, I will research other ways, other avenues so that the next time around Canadians will not be faced with what they have had in the past 13 years.