Government Operations committee  I'm trying to remember. Yes, we were consulted. We were contacted by a couple of union members who brought it to our attention. I think it was Louise Ade, maybe.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we were contacted. We went to bat for our post office, to absolutely no avail.

Government Operations committee  Definitely not. They wanted to go from a 40-hour work week in a store that was already open 70 or 80 hours a week down to 13 hours a week.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The post office had moved, but the old post office had probably been in place for over 50 years.

Government Operations committee  Definitely.

Government Operations committee  For you to say that, you can't be from a rural town.

Government Operations committee  In my community, if we had anything other than just taking out money, it would be great. Anyone who has a problem with it in my community, 24-7, they're calling me. I have to call a number based out of Halifax to see why the armoured truck wasn't on the ferry. Today, I know it wa

Government Operations committee  Well, in my community, we have an ATM machine, but unlike downtown on Water Street.... If you want to use the bank on Water Street, you can go in and put a cheque into the bank and into the machine and take money out. In my community, you can only take the money out. You can't pu

Government Operations committee  I think what Craig is saying is a big thing. When it comes to postal banking in a rural community like mine, there are ways and means for Canada Post to pick up a lot of money if they are suffering. In my community there is no bank. There has been no bank since 2002, and the peop

Government Operations committee  I'm just trying to illustrate that not having a ferry is another reason we need extended postal services, because if that boat had broken down an hour earlier, we wouldn't even have had post services for about four days, since Friday to today. That ferry situation is very importa

Government Operations committee  I got to get a run home because that's another story.

Government Operations committee  The ferry will get me home, but after three years and two weeks I was fortunate enough to get my licence back. I've got an R on my licence. I'm not allowed to drive in the nighttime. I'll get a taxi or thumb a ride over what we call Cove Road. I'll definitely get home somehow.

Government Operations committee  We used to have three post offices at one time. Within in the last five years, two of those small ones have shut down. We have one main one that we fought to have some extended hours for, because on the second-to-last one Canada Post gave us an alternative of 13 hours or not have

Government Operations committee  We think another post office would definitely help. In the last federal election all we did was...I won't say fight, but give them the proposal as to why we should have two. We've got one now for a community of a little fewer than 3,000 people. We just got $17.3 million worth o

Government Operations committee  Canada needs postal banking in rural communities. Thousands of rural towns and villages in our country do not have a bank. The community of Bell Island is one of those rural areas, but we do have a post office that could provide financial services. As well, nearly two million C