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The Canadian federal government is trying to push partial deregulation of Canada Post through Parliament as part of its omnibus budget bill according to Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Bill C-9, An act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures includes a provision to remove international letters from Canada Post’s exclusive privilege to handle letters. It is the Conservative’s third attempt to pass legislation deregulating international letters. One bill (C-14) died when the 2008 election was called. Another (C-44) died when Parliament was prorogued in 2009. “The notion of partially deregulating our public post office wasn’t even in the budget,” said Lemelin. “But it is a bad budgetary move. It means that Canada Post will have less money to pay taxes and dividends to the government and less money to provide universal public postal service. “



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