Government Operations committee  Yes, I would agree, but I think before we ever get to that, there are examples all around the world of postal administrations facing the same daunting task as Canada Post. They're looking for other innovative solutions, and that's what we need to do here in Canada.

Government Operations committee  Canada Post has been a successful crown corporation making profits year after year since the 1990s, and we think that will continue going forward. However, Canada Post has to look at expanding services. They can't continue to navel-gaze. Postal administrations around the world ar

Government Operations committee  Yes, I think we're talking about restoring local processing of the mail that's to stay in the community. In the case of mail that's mailed in Halifax for Toronto, yes, it makes sense to go to a larger sorting station. That's going to go across the country. We're talking about mai

Government Operations committee  I think maybe a change of direction at the top of Canada Post would be helpful. I think in the past we've been open to working with the management of Canada Post. We ask for consultations on a regular basis, and our collective agreements are full of mandates to consult, but I gue

Government Operations committee  It's not a contradiction. People have not been laid off. The cuts that Canada Post has made to jobs have mainly been through attrition, so as people retire—

Government Operations committee  Yes. We think it provided a much better service for residents to do their mail. If I'm mailing a letter in Halifax—

Government Operations committee  No, I don't agree with that. The Canadians and the owners of small and medium-sized businesses I've talked to say that reliability is important, but speed is every bit as important. When we're seeing mail that's taking upwards of a week to two weeks to be delivered, and it's a le

Government Operations committee  We're talking about invoices and important documents—documents from a lawyer's office, for example. That's the incident I'm thinking about right now. We received a letter from a lawyer's office in the Miramichi. Sending important documents across town took eight days.

Government Operations committee  You would be surprised that it was in the mail system.

Government Operations committee  What I'd have to say to that is that while Canada Post has implemented CMB delivery across Canada to a million points of call, a lot of those workers are still there. While Canada Post was claiming that it was making millions of dollars in savings, a lot of those letter carriers

Government Operations committee  Canada Post's own figures about who gets home mail delivery and who doesn't go to Mr. Whalen's point about whether to consider getting mail to an apartment as home mail delivery. When people in rural Canada get mail delivered to rural mailboxes at the end of their driveways, is t

Government Operations committee  No, but I've seen some reports of doctors charging up to $100 for a note to be provided to Canada Post for that. We think it's intrusive for people to have to prove that they're disabled and can't get their mail. For Canada Post to provide them mail delivery once a week as an alt

Government Operations committee  The five-point plan that Canada Post announced in December 2013 earmarked about five million total points of call across Canada to be eliminated, so virtually all door-to-door delivery outside of downtown business cores would be eliminated in the five-point plan. Hopefully it'll

Government Operations committee  Yes, the average right across our region is that the loss of jobs is through attrition, and the routes, as Mr. Keefe said, have gotten longer, but people still have to finish them within their eight hours, so in places like St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the overtime has

Government Operations committee  Sorry?