Finance committee  It's not the printing costs. The postage is the big part of the mailing. We have the envelopes, the paper, the printing, and the processing, but the postage is by far the biggest part. It's over double.... But Canada Post does compete. They pick the jobs that they want to do and

Finance committee  But I can tell you that my business was 50%.

Finance committee  That's the way it would look on the books, except the international.... Right now, Canada Post does compete and they do get some of that business. If the laws change such that we can't compete, you can bet the rates will go up. Anytime you don't have competition, the rates go up.

Finance committee  Mr. Carrier, I'd like to speak to that. It's not what we're going to gain; it's what we're going to keep. We've been doing this for 25 years and we've been doing it according to the law all the time. There are a lot of printers who won't tell us how much. We did a survey. We

Finance committee  I can talk about British Columbia, okay?

Finance committee  In B.C., in the Lower Mainland, we have 10 top printers that do about 75% or 80% of the business. Out of those top 10 printers, every one is involved in the U.S. market in doing printing and sending stuff through the mail to the United States. So is it significant? Yes. Damn ri

Finance committee  How many people would they employ...?

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes. We're talking about the industry, too, the letter shops, the printers, and the mail, all that stuff that goes together. It goes way deep; it goes right to the start and who makes the paper.

Finance committee  I can speak for my own company: I'm 50% down just on the threat that the industry is going to close. Already we've seen the international mailers switch because they can't take a chance that, all of a sudden--because it's before the courts--as I said in my comments, “You're out o

Finance committee  I have 17 right now.

Finance committee  A lot of jobs have started to wander away...a thousand, maybe?

Finance committee  Well, it's my first time in Ottawa...no, actually, it's my fourth time here in Ottawa, just about this bill. I had to put on my Sunday-best suit to come and see how you guys are spending our Canadian tax dollars. I'll tell all of them in British Columbia that you're doing fine, b

Finance committee  It is important for the committee to understand that during the past 25 years while this industry has operated in Canada, Canada Post has continuously and successfully provided universal postal service. There was no crisis. Our industry has not stopped this important mandate from