Government Operations committee  Very few of our members would have Canada Post facilities, so we wouldn't have received any feedback. The majority of our interest in this is the service that's going to be provided on a go-forward basis. We wouldn't have had any comments from any municipalities because very few

Government Operations committee  As I indicated, we would have very few that I'm aware of. More of our members and residents would be accessing those types of services in the smaller urban areas that they surround, but I do believe it would be supported, particularly given that industries or businesses have been

Government Operations committee  I would agree. I don't think our members would see it as such.

Government Operations committee  I'm thinking a combination of both, based on the needs of our members. It probably would be difficult for a business to consider some of the services they would be providing in some of our rural and remote areas as viable, and there might be challenges there, whereas in the urban

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure that it needs to be reinvented in rural areas. A commitment to the service that our members or our ratepayers expect is certain what we're looking at, but I find it difficult to specifically say, on behalf of our members, what business model we think would work.

Government Operations committee  Our organization is supportive of any measures that are taken to keep that postal delivery service in rural Saskatchewan for our members and the majority of our ratepayers. As I indicated before, ours is a main pickup centre, and most of us are going into town anyway. A phrase

Government Operations committee  Right. As I said, we would support initiatives to reduce costs in the urban centres in favour of supporting our rural service—without reducing their service, of course.

Government Operations committee  I think even just some collaboration in how decisions are made about the hours of service and delivery days. I think that for the most part our members and our ratepayers would agree that there's not necessarily a demand there to have something delivered to us every day, if we un

Government Operations committee  There may not be particularly for postal banking, but I'm not sure that we can comment on what our members' and our residents' appetite would be for the actual mechanism of postal banking. The reference to banks and postal services partnering, from our submission, is that in ma

Government Operations committee  Our members primarily are not served by a walked route. Parcel pickup is the way we're serviced in the rural areas, so there would probably be limited opportunity for our members to partner on programs like that. Certainly our members are always open to opportunities, depending

Government Operations committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee today. My name is Carmen Sterling. I'm the vice-president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities. For those who are unfamiliar with us, the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities