Government Operations committee  We're not sure how many are accessing e-post, because many rural areas don't have reliable high-speed Internet services, so essentially all you can do there is pay bills. I shouldn't say “all you can do”. You pay bills there, but if you don't have a reliable Internet service, the

Government Operations committee  Or you could just allow people to go to the brick-and-mortar post office, which is still in most communities, and they can do their banking there.

Government Operations committee  I would say yes, they would have to. If they're not willing to expand in the money-making areas and Canadians want their postal service, then yes, it would have to be subsidized.

Government Operations committee  That was from existing CMBs.

Government Operations committee  Yes, there is. Again, there are exhibits in my testimony. I've received a photograph from a member who was out in Portland Estates, looking at Christmas lights with his family, and there was a box that was broken into. He took a picture and sent it to me. Then last year in Hammon

Government Operations committee  Obviously, there has always been theft of mail. What you are asking—to see the figures for before and after—is one of the things I had asked for in my testimony.

Government Operations committee  Prior to the implementation, which began in 2014, CPC, through a freedom of information request, did an investigation in British Columbia, because British Columbia was the fastest-growing real estate market. I'm going to refer to one of my exhibits. There were 48,000 incidents

Government Operations committee  I do remember seeing a letter from the municipality of Yarmouth. It's not our municipality, but it's within the province. They were quite concerned about things like lighting and litter removal, because when most people open their mailbox and get junk mail, it goes in the garbage

Government Operations committee  I don't know how many have experience with banking as such. I'm a newly trained retail clerk in Burnside. We already offer a lot of financial services. We have prepaid credit cards. We do money transfers. We offer money orders. We already offer a great deal of financial service o

Government Operations committee  I believe it would be a smart investment in the long run. When you look at the record profits that the banking industry is currently making—and they're doing that by consolidating branches, taking branches out of rural areas, and taking branches out of, shall we say, lower-income

Government Operations committee  What the union is proposing is that Canada Post and the Liberal government look at the different options that are out there. There are options whereby Canada Post would be a fully funded bank. There are options whereby Canada Post would partner with one financial institution, s

Government Operations committee  Good morning. My name is Michael Keefe, and I have been a postal workers since I first started as Christmas help in December 1983. I'm also the first vice-president of the Nova local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 600 members working from Hubbards to La