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CUPW President responds to OECD “Canada Post should be privatized”
CUPW National President responds to “Canada Post should be privatized: OECD” March 10, 2010
Re: “Canada Post should be privatized: OECD,” March 10, 2010.
The OECD says our post office should be privatized and deregulated because “the Netherlands in particular has had considerable success in ending a government monopoly.” Really? The last time we checked, the Netherlands’ post office (TNT) posted a 58% decrease in profits in 2010, laid off 15% of their workforce and charged 19% more than Canada for standard stamps in a country which is larger than Vancouver Island but smaller than Nova Scotia. Forget the smoke and mirrors brought to you by an OECD 2009 recommendation that somehow became today’s news. Canada Post is a public sector success story with one of the cheapest stamps in the G8. Not bad for a country this size.
Denis Lemelin
CUPW National President
Origin of the OECD's Proposal to Privatize Canada Post
The following post may be of interest:
Transatlantic Echo Chamber
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/03/19/transatlantic-echo-chamber/
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