Mr. Speaker, Canadians are speaking very loudly through their choices. If we look at banking, Canadians are increasingly moving away from old branch infrastructure. They are moving to online banking, whether on their desktop or by using new apps created for their smart phone in order to do that kind of banking. I do both. I do Internet banking myself. I will sit here and do banking on my BlackBerry as well. It is the way the world is moving. It is increasingly so. In just nine short years, over half of banking consumers will be from younger generations who are not using old infrastructure.
It is the same situation with respect to postal services. Canadians are speaking through their actions. They are sending far fewer individual letters. They are sending more parcels and doing more online shopping. Those trends are reflected. However, parcel delivery would not be enough to save traditional letter mail and the postal service, the way it is today. That is why Canada Post has a five-point action plan and that is why it believes it needs to take action now, and not delay any further so that the losses continue to pile up. These trends are irreversible. Canadians are speaking through their actions now with respect to postal services changing.