"$1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s artificial intelligence and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding AI technology more deeply in federal government operations."

This money should go to Canada Post instead.

Why are we giving our money to private AI corporations making record profits instead of a government-owned service essential to Canadian small businesses?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-budget-quantum-ai-computing-9.6966549

#CanPoli #ElbowsUp #Canada #CanadaPost

"$1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s artificial intelligence and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding AI technology more deeply in federal government operations."

This money should go to Canada Post instead.

Why are we giving our money to private AI corporations making record profits instead of a government-owned service essential to Canadian small businesses?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-budget-quantum-ai-computing-9.6966549

#CanPoli #ElbowsUp #Canada #CanadaPost

@GlobalNews @canada-GlobalNews

Laws need to be amended so that persons or businesses other than the employer who suffer losses due to strikes can sue the union for damages.

#CanadaPost #CUPW #CDNPoli

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

Regarding Canada Post and the postal workers strike:

#canadapost #postesCanada #PostalStrike

Regarding Canada Post and the postal workers strike:

#canadapost #postesCanada #PostalStrike

“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

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/

“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

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/

https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/

#canada #cdnpoli #canadapost

https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/

#canada #cdnpoli #canadapost

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.

#cdnpoli #canadapost

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canada-post-is-a-vital-canadian-institution-why-doesnt-the-government-act-that-way/

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.

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

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.

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?

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/leadership-and-governance/corporate-governance/directors-biographies.page

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/leadership-and-governance/senior-management-team.page

#cdnpoli #canadapost

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.

#CanPoli #CanadaPost