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A postal service is a service. As in, it exists to benefit the citizenry, and for no other reason. A profit margin was never meant to be a part of that.
Bring Canada Post back into being 100% a crown corporation again. Make its mandate to be a service centre, and not a profit/revenue centre.
It is a crown corporation. I guess you want (and I wan it too) to be a brought back as a federal government department.
At some point, that's just lighting money on fire.
Instead of having a post office like a real country, let's just put all our letters on a big table in the centre of Canada and everyone can go there and rummage around when they need to send or receive anything. This will allow us to afford the necessary financial bailout of the federal government by saving up to $4 a year per Canadian.
Wait, they're still in a budget hole after this plan? That's some union!
(Canada Post is on track to cost 1.5 billion over costs in 2025, so almost $40 for each of the 40ish million Canadians including children etc.)
Pretty expensive. If only they could come up with some way to count it as military spending it wouldn't be a problem.
I'm not sure how the Postal service could be used to help our friends in Ukraine or deter Russian aggression in Europe, but open to suggestions!
Omg Winnipeg-centric messaging, like the good ole days 🥰🥰🥰
I don't mind waiting for my mail. I just hope everyone can keep their job. It's hard enough these days, being unemployed would be terrible.
I'm torn. I don't want anyone to lose their jobs but I don't love subsidizing reasonably expensive jobs that don't provide much in surplus value compared to say, teachers, nurses, firefighters etc, all of whom we desperately need.
I get that perspective, but I also don't think it's fair for our government to reduce the level of service Canadians should expect from our public post office while simultaneously pumping ungodly amounts of money into private LNG, mining, and electric vehicle companies.
Don’t get your hopes up because budget cuts aren’t subsidizing them either
Most of those are handled provincially and I can't speak for other provinces but BC at least is using federal transfer ms (which budget cuts elsewhere help fund) to help hire more nurses and firefighters.
They haven't really been doing door to door deliveries anyway.
Mark Carney is failing Canada.
If he's failing Canada, just think about how bad PP and his small penis syndrome would be failing us. How do you think he'd be dealing with all of this? Putting out passive aggressive one liner insults on Twitter and LinkedIn?
We don't live in a two party state, believe it or not.
"Oh, but only two parties had a chance of winning!"
Except in the previous two elections we gave the NDP enough power to hold the Liberals back from their worst tendencies to such an extent that people convinced themselves that they weren't financially regressive shitheads, so I really don't want to hear it.
The NDP isn't even an option at the moment though, nor is the Green Party really. The NDP imploded and is now a mess. They can't even get their own internal stuff sorted out, let alone be cohesive enough to run a country at a moment like this.
Like it or not (and I don't really either for the record), for right now, it's a two party situation. We shall see what the future holds.
The NDP isn’t even an option at the moment though
They were at the time of election. It was not a two party situation, that's just a lie people are telling themselves to soothe the foolish decision they allowed themselves to be tricked into making.
When you consider that all of the other parties less than, seven percent of the total seats, this so-called lie becomes less of a lie and a bit more the reality of the situation.
Except, once again, the last two elections resulted in a strong enough NDP to stop the Liberal's worst instincts. To such an extent that people were able to lie to themselves that the good things that came from those governments were the products of the Liberals and not NDP pressure.
So how did that situation end for the NDP then? I agree it was quite the unique situation, and it was kind of neat to see honestly. But how did that all end for the NDP?
Plot spoiler: not well.
Yeah, Canadian voters fucked up real bad and now we're going to suffer the consequences, it's true.
You forgot to add "... slower than the alternative"