Mr. Speaker, a company in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli in my riding could have built the new community mailboxes. It has been building mailboxes for Canada Post for over 25 years.
However, that is not what management at Canada Post decided to do. Canadian manufacturers have not even been allowed participate in the bidding processes that have taken place in recent months. They cannot even bid. In 2015, our mailboxes will be manufactured in the United States.
Can the minister explain why she is forcibly imposing working conditions on crown corporations and yet doing nothing to create jobs for Canadians?