Letter to Rob Merrifield, Minister of State, Transport - Subject: Sale or Privatization of Canada Post

BY MAIL AND EMAIL

Rob Merrifield
Minister of State, Transport
Place de Ville, Tower C, 29^th Floor
330 Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario    K1A 0N5

In a Toronto Star article (Flaherty engages in numbers game he denounced, December 6, 2008), Chisholm Pothier, press secretary to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, elaborated on Minister Flaherty’s announced review regarding the sale of government assets. Pothier is reported to have said that the government is focusing on a possible sale of enterprise Crown corporations, including Canada Post.
 
We followed up with Flaherty’s press secretary and he informed us that the reporter was mistaken and that the Minister actually said, “We have no intention to sell either Canada Post or the CBC.”
 
Why then does Canada Post keep coming up when the government’s review of assets is mentioned? Why would the government be reviewing Canada Post assets if the government does not get money from the sale of Canada Post assets? What Canada Post assets are being reviewed by the government and why?
 
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yours truly,

Denis Lemelin
National President

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