Government Operations committee  Thank you. Yes, we agree with that, and we have lots of studies to say that Canadians don't mind paying higher taxes to get the kinds of public services they want.

Government Operations committee  Yes. From things as I understand them, when you put more fleet on the road and you have fewer people on foot, that naturally increases your carbon footprint.

Government Operations committee  I think the suggestion was that charging stations could be at the actual post offices that are in those communities now, the same as those buildings could be part of the banking system and many other kinds of things. Almost every rural community in this province has a post office

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure. I don't have those numbers in front of me, so I don't know. Maybe Jeff can touch on that.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, no, I don't, but my colleagues might be able to answer that question. I want to add a bit to the conversation beforehand. In Nova Scotia in particular, a lot of small rural communities have lost their banks. There is no bank there at all. What I believe we need to do is

Government Operations committee  I guess that's a technical question, because there are different degrees of how that happens, but as long as both parties have an equal say and equal value in the management of the pension plan, then that's one question. We generally stand to defend defined benefit pension plans

Government Operations committee  There are so many different degrees to what you're talking about that it's hard for me to give a direct answer, because sometimes that works well in one place and in other places it doesn't work so well. Clearly, we believe people need to have a decent pension.

Government Operations committee  I think any process can always be looked at, but probably a couple of years ago, we would say most of these processes didn't have any value. I hope this process will be different. I wasn't at other meetings that you had, but I hear that in some places, there were nine vacant open

Government Operations committee  I guess when we say daily door-to-door delivery, that's exactly what we mean. It's delivering the mail to the door as it used to be years ago. As an example, at my house, where I live, I've lost mine. I live in a rural community. I had a mailbox. Now I have to drive three kilomet

Government Operations committee  What we're saying is to go back to how it used to be out in the rural community. I didn't mind getting my mail in the mailbox. That's what we're talking about.

Government Operations committee  I guess. I have never lived in a condominium, so I'm not sure

Government Operations committee  If you're talking about going inside the door of what I'm familiar with, an apartment building where everybody's mailbox is in the main hallway, then that is what we would be talking about.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  If your question's on pensions, yes, we stand and we fight for decent pensions for—

Government Operations committee  I only have a few paragraphs to go.