Johanna, CanCon variant
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Regarding Canada Post and the postal workers strike:
Regarding Canada Post and the postal workers strike:
Johanna, CanCon variant
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“To justify its accelerated de facto privatization program, the government is fond of saying that Canada Post is “losing $10 million per day.” This claim is dubious on its face, based on a year defined by unresolved labour disputes and large one-time costs. More telling is the double standard: no other public service is evaluated this way. How much, for example, does the Canadian military “lose” per day? The answer: $169 million.”
— Dru Oja Jay, in The Breach
“To justify its accelerated de facto privatization program, the government is fond of saying that Canada Post is “losing $10 million per day.” This claim is dubious on its face, based on a year defined by unresolved labour disputes and large one-time costs. More telling is the double standard: no other public service is evaluated this way. How much, for example, does the Canadian military “lose” per day? The answer: $169 million.”
— Dru Oja Jay, in The Breach
The research fairy
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der.hans
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Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.
We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.
Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement!
#cdnpoli #canadapost
Hubert Chathi
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Hmm Canada Post should abandon homes? Can Policy Alternatives argues Canada should abandon protecting Amazon and its austerity wages.
Transfer shuttered Amazon warehouses to Canada Post: One obvious place where the federal government could begin moving Canada Post towards greater parcel capacity would be by expropriating the parcel sorting facilities that Amazon has abandoned in Quebec, and handing them over to the post office. Canada Post could then hire the Amazon workers, who the company illegally fired for unionizing, as part of a plan to ramp up its parcel delivery capacity and take back market share.
der.hans
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Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.
However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.
Stop this madness.
benjamin melançon
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am reading posts about some dingbats in #Canada stoking the #CanadaPost is not profitable fires, and i feel like am taking crazy pills; because nobody is saying the obvious: this is the same playbook used for the past 50 years in the UK and USA.
shut that corporatist #fascism shit down immediately or y’all end up with a Brexit and Trump of your own.
government isn’t a corporation.
the only people who want to run government as a private corporation, enriching the few, are fascists.
Hmm Canada Post should abandon homes? Can Policy Alternatives argues Canada should abandon protecting Amazon and its austerity wages.
Transfer shuttered Amazon warehouses to Canada Post: One obvious place where the federal government could begin moving Canada Post towards greater parcel capacity would be by expropriating the parcel sorting facilities that Amazon has abandoned in Quebec, and handing them over to the post office. Canada Post could then hire the Amazon workers, who the company illegally fired for unionizing, as part of a plan to ramp up its parcel delivery capacity and take back market share.
An organization with
9 directors,
7 chief executives,
12 vice presidents
(28 yes (wo)men?)
With ultimate direction from a gov’t minister has set itself up to stymie any innovation?
Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.
However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.
Stop this madness.
Dear Liberal Government:
I understand that your Chicago Schooled brains may find this difficult to understand, as your whole worlds revolve around capitalist economics, but here's a little tip for you, a word in your shell-like ears.
The purpose of the post office is to deliver mail.
It's not supposed to make money! Charges and fees are meant to defray the costs of running it, most of which are gathered through taxes and apportioned through Parliament. This is not rocket science! Not everything has to be financially solvent! The returns from the delivery of mail, especially to rural Canadians, far and away outweigh the cost of service!
I swear to fuck, fiscal conservatives will throw away a $100 to save a dime.
am reading posts about some dingbats in #Canada stoking the #CanadaPost is not profitable fires, and i feel like am taking crazy pills; because nobody is saying the obvious: this is the same playbook used for the past 50 years in the UK and USA.
shut that corporatist #fascism shit down immediately or y’all end up with a Brexit and Trump of your own.
government isn’t a corporation.
the only people who want to run government as a private corporation, enriching the few, are fascists.
Hmm Canada Post should abandon homes? Can Policy Alternatives argues Canada should abandon protecting Amazon and its austerity wages.
Transfer shuttered Amazon warehouses to Canada Post: One obvious place where the federal government could begin moving Canada Post towards greater parcel capacity would be by expropriating the parcel sorting facilities that Amazon has abandoned in Quebec, and handing them over to the post office. Canada Post could then hire the Amazon workers, who the company illegally fired for unionizing, as part of a plan to ramp up its parcel delivery capacity and take back market share.
Solidarity with the Posties 📫
Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.
We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.
Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement!
#cdnpoli #canadapost