Protect Canada Post Services

AI summary

The petitioners say Canada Post and the federal government are proposing cuts that would end door‑to‑door delivery, lower mail delivery standards, lift the moratorium on rural post office closures, and result in job losses; the petition cites that four million households and thousands of workers would be affected and that seniors, people with disabilities, and rural, remote and Indigenous communities would be particularly harmed. They say Canada Post submitted a plan to government that has not been released publicly and that the government relied on an Industrial Inquiry Commission report produced with limited public input. The petition asks Parliament to stop the proposed cuts and to launch an immediate, fully transparent public mandate review of Canada Post that allows meaningful stakeholder input.

AI summaries describe petitioners’ requests and claims. Consult the official record for the full text.

Official petition

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled Whereas Canada Post and the governing Liberals are taking an axe to long-treasured postal services - eliminating good jobs, eliminating door-to-door delivery, lowering mail delivery standards, and removing the moratorium preventing the closure of rural post offices. Whereas Canada Post has submitted its plan for these cuts to the Government, but it has not been released publicly. Whereas these cuts will hurt seniors and disabled Canadians in particular, who represent over 40% of the population, as well as rural, remote and Indigenous communities, four million households will also lose door-to- door delivery over the next three to five years, and thousands of workers will lose their jobs. Whereas the Government of Canada has instructed Canada Post to cut services based on an Industrial Inquiry Commission report produced with limited input from the public - its main stakeholder - and which rejected service expansion recommendations of those who did participate, and; Whereas Canada Post offers a public service that needs to be protected. Therefore we, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to stop the postal service cuts, and to immediately launch a fully transparent public mandate review of Canada Post that allows all stakeholders to provide meaningful input.

Government response

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