Candidate Endorsement - Federal Election 2025

Hands Off My Post Office!


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(Deadline to Endorse: April 24 – 12pm Eastern)

 

After more than a year of unproductive negotiations with Canada Post, postal workers were forced to end their legal strike – a constitutional right – because of Minister of Labour, Steven MacKinnon’s order under section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. Postal workers are also subject to an Industrial Inquiry Commission that is due to have its report out not later than May 15, 2025. It will likely be the next federal government that decides what to do with that report and its recommendations. Canada Post has asked the Commission to exclude service expansion into non-core areas from its recommendations. At the same time, Canada Post is seeking major collective agreement changes and is advocating for regulatory changes – something that would normally be examined during a full, public mandate review.

Canada Post is perfectly positioned to live up to its mandate to develop new services to diversify its revenue generating streams to address people's changing needs – as many other post offices around the world have already done. It can lead the way to a sustainable future by greening its massive infrastructure and fleet, kickstarting our transition towards good, green jobs. And it can play an enhanced role in our communities' recovery and future resilience.

 


As an MP, I pledge to support the following efforts:

 

Canada Post

  • Public Service: Ensure that Canada Post remains a Crown Corporation with a strong public service mandate, that it maintains its exclusive privilege, and that it maintains its universal service obligation to deliver letters in Canada at a uniform postage rate. No privatization. No deregulation.
  • Expand Services: Ensure that Canada Post expands its services to include things such as postal banking, check-ins, community hubs to help diversify and increase revenue generating capacity toward financial self-sustainability.
  • No Service Cuts: Ensure that there are no cuts to postal services, no resumption of the conversion to Community Mail Boxes, and no post office closures – especially in rural, remote and Northern areas.
  • Good Jobs in Our Communities: Ensure that Canada Post maintains and creates good jobs, with benefits and fair wages, helping to benefit the communities in which postal workers live. Ensure that there is no gigification of existing or future jobs at Canada Post.
  • Environmental Leader: Ensure that Canada Post becomes an environmental leader through expanding consolidated last mile delivery, greening the fleet with union-made electric vehicles, and retrofitting its buildings for cost savings and to help fight climate change.

 

Worker Rights

  • Preserve workers’ right to strike.
  • Preserve the right to free and fair collective bargaining.

  • Denounce and vote against any back to work legislation, use of the Canada Labour Code or other government manoeuvres to force an end to legal strikes.