While Canada Post has been in the news recently with the focus on their inability to bargain with its workers and on the huge losses that Canada Post is purported to be incurring, there is much more that is not being discussed in the media.

There are solutions other than taking a chainsaw to the services that many Canadian citizens and businesses rely on.  Many other global postal services are now branching into new services such as postal banking (which Canada Post once had) as well as an array of other services such as seniors' check-ins, prescription drop-offs, e-vehicle charging stations, rural internet, etc.

If change does not come to Canada Post quickly, Canadians will be left to the whims of private courier and parcel companies that have no mandate to provide service to every Canadian at a reasonable price.  Sending parcels and documents could become cost-prohibitive for many Canadians and small businesses.

To stop the further erosion of this public service which is owned by us, the Canadian citizens, we are demanding a full parliamentary inquiry into Canada Post, especially the last seven years, to look at the following:

1)  A full public accounting of the finances at Canada Post from 2018 to the present

1)  The feasibility of providing a postal bank to all Canadians to offset the decline in lettermail volumes, and to reverse the trend of brick-and-mortar banks disappearing from many rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, being mindful that these bank closure affect those in those communities, as well as the elderly, disproportionately.

2) To expand into new services to make it financially viable to preserve the presence of postal workers in our communities (door-to-door service) who provide services that cannot be given a monetary value, such as looking in on elderly customers, reporting suspicious activities to police, notifying community members of fires, loose dogs, and even children that have escaped from an enclosed yard.  Postal workers are your eyes and ears in the community.

3) To determine if the current board of directors is managing Canada Post's finances in a way that is beneficial to the corporation, its employees and its shareholders, those being every Canadian citizen.

4) To determine how Canada Post could possibly have reported losses during the Covid 19 pandemic when work was at an all-time record level and its workers were endangering their own families by working 12 hour days, sometimes 7 days a week to continue to propel both Canada Post and the Canadian economy

5) To determine how a $460 million dollar plant was built to service the parcel volumes coming from a major online retailer with no long-term contract guaranteeing that work for any substantial period of time

6) To investigate the corporation's failure to negotiate in good faith, driving down employer/employee relations to an all-time low

7) To investigate breaches of the boards responsibility to protect Canada Post by way of continuing to advise our customers that a postal disruption may be imminent when chances were slim (post Dec 2024).

8) To investigate claims that work is being rerouted to a private courier company on which the CEO of Canada Post sits as a board member, and to determine that, if this is being done, if it is being done to hedge Canada Post's position in negotiations (eroding volumes) or whether it is being done to profit a separate company

9) To ascertain whether the CEO of Canada Post sitting as a board member is a conflict-of-interest and detrimental to the long-term success of the Canada Post Corporation.

10) To ascertain whether it would be in Canada Post's and Canadians' best long-term interest to replace the current board of directors of Canada Post.

11) To investigate a failure to adhere to the Canadian Postal Charter and Canada Post Corporation Act whereas Canada Post has an exclusive privilege to deliver mail within the borders of Canada and whereas their new work model, SSD (separate of sortation and delivery), which results in an additional delay of delivery of the mail by a full day, possibly violate the postal charter's expectation of mail delivery in major urban centres within 2 days.

12) To ascertain whether or not Canada Post executives should be receiving monetary yearly bonuses when they claim that Canada Post is broke and are accepting bridge loans from the Canadian public

13) To ascertain whether funds given by Canadian taxpayers are being used towards Purolator Canada, a company in which Canada Post has majority ownership, including but not limited to its recent acquisition of Livingston International

14) To ascertain if the corporation's currently policy of hiring contractors to sub-contract out work and repairs in facilities is cost-effective

15) To look at Canada Post's procurement policies and standards to see if they are in keeping with current industry standards and policies.

16) To ascertain whether or not board members at Canada Post are sending work to Purolator Courier are receiving any personal gain to the detriment of the Canada Post Corporation, i.e. stock holdings

17) To ascertain whether or not Purolator Canada (a Canada Post Company) is knowingly receiving Canada Post work and/or product for delivery by Purolator.

We ask that this be done keeping in mind that Canada Post is a public service and not a parcel company and that it has mandates to deliver to all Canadians regardless of the costs involved and that private companies are not burdened with this mandate.  One cannot size up Canada Post's success or failure by comparing it to a private company.

Unless Canadians stand up and demand accountability, there is little hope to see it or to expect Canada Post to survive the current financial issues that it is facing.  This will affect the cost of every item you have delivered to your door, because if our national postal service is ever privatized, rates will increase exponentially as they did during the 2024 work stoppage at Canada Post.  I would urge each and every Canadian to sign this petition.

Thank you.