Resolutions

Resolution: Save Public Post Offices and Rural Delivery
(July 22, 2009 / Strategic Review of Canada Post / Resolutions)

WHEREAS the report of the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review (CPCSR) recommends that the current moratorium on post office closures in rural and small towns be replaced with a mechanism involving new rules and procedures, including the ability to replace public post offices with private outlets. WHEREAS the report also recommends that rural mailbox delivery be reconsidered. WHEREAS these recommendations, if implemented by the federal government, would undermine public postal service...

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Resolution for Municipalities on the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review
(July 7, 2008 / Strategic Review of Canada Post / Resolutions)

WHEREAS the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review, which was launched by the federal government on April 21, 2008, is looking at deregulating our public post office (i.e. reducing or removing Canada Post’s exclusive privilege on letters) WHEREAS it will become increasingly difficult for our public post office to provide affordable service to everyone, no matter where they live, if the government erodes or eliminates the very mechanism that funds universal postal service - the...

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Canada Post: A Public Institution
(October 18, 2006 / Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is a Crown corporation that is mandated by law to provide basic customary postal service while operating on a financially self-sustaining basis. WHEREAS Crown corporations like Canada Post have both public and commercial activities, but are distinct from commercial enterprises in that they are designed to serve the public interest, not maximize profit. WHEREAS the federal government has asked Canada Post to act like a commercial enterprise that generates commercial...

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Canada Post: A Public Institution
(October 18, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is a Crown corporation that is mandated by law to provide basic customary postal service while operating on a financially self-sustaining basis. WHEREAS Crown corporations like Canada Post have both public and commercial activities, but are distinct from commercial enterprises in that they are designed to serve the public interest, not maximize profit. WHEREAS the federal government has asked Canada Post to act like a commercial enterprise that generates commercial...

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