Government Operations committee  I'm not an urban planner, so it's a challenge for me to answer that. What I can tell you is that it creates insurmountable problems for the people I serve. People with disabilities are finding it a real challenge, particularly in the wintertime, to get their mail. They're feelin

Government Operations committee  Ideally, yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I would. It probably wouldn't be a good business decision, but it would be the decision I would make.

Government Operations committee  If that's the recommendation by this committee and that's how you've decided to move forward, that would be a process we would be committed to and participate in. Do we see that as the right solution? Absolutely not.

Government Operations committee  I don't know that. I know that people with disabilities who live in this province are 50% more likely to be underemployed or unemployed, and we have 20,000 people with disabilities.

Government Operations committee  It's 140,000.

Government Operations committee  People with disabilities on Prince Edward Island are just like you and me. They live in a variety of different situations.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, I had trouble hearing you. Did you say a phone line service or a first line service?

Government Operations committee  You could use a couple of different lenses to answer that question, and one is a lens around accommodation. Would Canada Post then be making accommodations to have a specialized service for people with disabilities? Yes, that would be the case, but if you really look at it from a

Government Operations committee  Yes. There are people who live in communities who have had community mailboxes for a long time, and they've had to go to their community mailboxes. Most of those community mailboxes, before the city of Charlottetown lost door-to-door delivery, were in the suburbs. Individuals who

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  No, I don't think it's right. We see it all the time, where things are downloaded onto the smallest form of government to take on more responsibility. It's not correct. I'm a community advocate, not a business person, but I think there need to be ways that we look at efficiencies

Government Operations committee  It's for all aspects, yes.

Government Operations committee  I think you have to look at your definition of fair. For my organization and the people I represent, door-to-door delivery is a fundamental service that needs to continue in this country. It's about dignity and autonomy, for people to be able to receive their mail and open their

Government Operations committee  No, we don't have the capacity to do that. We have anecdotal information, as people have called us and told us their story. We always encourage them to contact the police. It's not our role in the community to collect statistics. That's not what we're doing.