Mr. Speaker, the constant cuts to postal services in New Brunswick's rural areas are unacceptable.
The Saint-Paul post office, and, as Councillor Gilles Cormier tells me, the one in Haute-Aboujagane, will have reduced hours. The Conservatives keep attacking the rural areas and treating the people who live there like second-class citizens.
By reducing these services, the government is not only hurting local businesses, but also limiting access to an essential service for many Canadians.
Cuts in places such as the Cape Tormentine post office are not only detrimental to the communities which depend on postal service, but also to local employees who have seen their hours cut, or worse, eliminated.
I call upon the Conservative government to not only reverse these cuts, but to find other and better ways to modernize Canada Post.
The government must stop punishing people who live in rural areas across Canada.