Opinion-Editorial

Why do Illegal Mailers Continue to Operate? Ask those “Tough on Crime” Conservatives
(May 3, 2010 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Opinion-Editorials)

By Denis Lemelin Did you know that the Conservative minority government is smuggling certain controversial measures into its upcoming federal budget Bill C-9? While all eyes are on the Rahim Jaffer/Helena Guergis scandal, some other shady business is getting overlooked. Items that might prove unpopular, exposed to the light of public scrutiny, are being packaged and sold as part of a budget that is quickly working its way through Parliament. The Conservatives are counting on the opposition’s reluctance...

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The Selling of Canada Post
(February 1, 2010 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Opinion-Editorials)

Canada Post is not being sold to the private sector just yet, but the Crown corporation is in the midst of selling the public on its view of today and its vision for the future. This vision includes some privatization and more post office closures. In recent months, Canada Post has been featured in news stories that paint a picture of a post office in need of a major tune up. The corporation has been telling anyone who will listen that volumes and revenues are down, in part, due to the...

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High stakes secret review of Canada Post
(June 24, 2008 / Strategic Review of Canada Post / Opinion-Editorials)

Over the next few months, our Conservative federal government is conducting a review that will determine the future of universal, public postal service. This review is pretty much a secret review and it could be very bad news for rural communities. The government’s review will look at three very basic and important questions: What postal services should people receive? Who should provide them? And should Canada Post continue to have an exclusive privilege to handle addressed letters...

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International mailers want a slice of the public postal pie – Who wins? Who loses? And who the heck are they?
(November 20, 2007 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Opinion-Editorials)

Large international corporations have been salivating at the thought of carving up the public postal pie for years. An obscure bill called C-14 may give them their first slice. If passed, this bill will hand international mailers a carving knife called deregulation. Bill C-14 aims to partially deregulate Canada Post by removing international letters from the corporation’s exclusive privilege to collect, transmit and deliver letters. Canada Post has the right, under law, to...

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Did we build our public post office for 200 customers?
(October 16, 2006 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Opinion-Editorials)

That's what Canada Post thinks. Canada Post says that it has 200 large customers that make or break the corporation and that it needs to keep its eyes on the people who pay the bills. So what about the rest of us? You know, the 33 million folks who make up this country. The people who built and paid for our public post office. Don't we matter? Canada Post is quick to point out that we have an "emotional" or "historic" relationship to the post office that no longer makes sense. Senior...

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Did we build our public post office for 200 customers?
(October 16, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Opinion-Editorials)

That's what Canada Post thinks. Canada Post says that it has 200 large customers that make or break the corporation and that it needs to keep its eyes on the people who pay the bills. So what about the rest of us? You know, the 33 million folks who make up this country. The people who built and paid for our public post office. Don't we matter? Canada Post is quick to point out that we have an "emotional" or "historic" relationship to the post office that no longer makes sense. Senior...

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Your public post office delivers - for now
(November 2, 2005 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Opinion-Editorials)

Many people think the battle to save public post offices has been fought and won. The bad news is that the battle is again upon us. Over a decade ago, Canada Post closed 1,442 rural and 93 urban post offices. A moratorium announced by the Liberal federal government in 1994 promised to safeguard small town post offices. But Canada Post is once again closing offices, reducing services and cutting jobs. Canada Post has admitted it is currently reviewing its national network. Approximately 50 rural...

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