LETTER

Canada Post re-designed

 

In shock, I'm witnessing a trend to privatize public services. The hard evidence of financial issues regarding Canada Post has not been presented and I wish this evidence had been disclosed to us more transparently. I do not wish to start by assuming that Canada Post is not good as is, but commerce is changing. The changes in commerce mean a greater importance of postal services. Adjustments to the new challenges require creative vision, innovation, problem solving, evolution, planning and execution, attributes we Canadians claim to have. Here is an opportunity to show that we, in fact, have them.

The other and opposite end of it, is lazy government that does not administrate and passes on public services for profit of the private when it could be, instead, profit of ourselves. We pay taxes and pay for the administrators. While, it is not hard to see how private interests have influenced other countries to increase the costs to working people of public services such as jails, education, health and universities, etc. at much higher cost, we don't want the same outcome for us, and this is the time to stop the trend. We want publicly controlled public services and this crisis is ideal to define our path for the future.

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Yuri Mendez Zarate
Ottawa