Government Operations committee  No, but when you open up a private outlet 300 metres from the existing corporate outlet—

Government Operations committee  Well, there's competition in business, right?

Government Operations committee  And that's not true. We've been railing against that since they opened the first one. It was in Calgary, and I was on that picket line too.

Government Operations committee  Darn.

Government Operations committee  Of course not.

Government Operations committee  Do you mean overall employer-employee relationships?

Government Operations committee  It's a work in progress, in a sense. People go to Canada Post for the money and the benefits. You go there; you do your job; and you go home. In the main, employees on the work floor want to have their jobs; they want to get the job done; and they want to get the mail to whoever it's being delivered to.

Government Operations committee  I believe they've only focused on cuts. What I didn't have in my presentation but what was in the back of my mind was that if you feel you're going to be losing money, then you should be diversifying instead of raising the prices of the product that you're selling and cutting the services that you're supposed to deliver.

Government Operations committee  Five minutes is not very long.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for allowing me to speak with respect to the future of Canada Post. This is going to be a joint presentation, which is why Frank Goldie's name is on here as well. I'm representing the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. I've been a postal clerk with Canada Post for 39 years.