CUPW has announced an immediate strike, and postal workers are currently walking off the job.
The minister of public works, Joel Lightbound, has announced his intentions to implement all of the recommedations laid out in the Kaplan report, including permanently ending door-to-door delivery and the requirement to deliver mail 5 days a week.
Not sure how he expected labour to respond to 1/3 of the workforce being made redundant.
Zero-sum arguments are the Overton window that the wealthy and powerful have permitted you to debate within. The premise you bring forth here is both ridiculous and intellectually insulting, not the least because it wouldn’t even be an issue if the wealthy just paid their fair share.
Do better.
With what? No computer, no clue how to use one, no real ability to learn, requiring dozens of hours of professional instruction to get the simplest workflows which are forgotten within a few days of non-use, constantly at risk of scams and phishing because she has absolutely no experience with the Internet, and absolutely no interest in learning when she’s already 95% done her lifespan and has difficulty even remembering what day of the week it is.
It’s like you being forced to spend outrageous amounts of money on an electric car simply because someone else decided to stop all gasoline production and distribution in Canada.
Fact is, everyone deserves to have access to all traditional communication, be it phones (you pay for that) or Internet (you also pay for that), or snail mail (also, paid for). We need a fundamental mode of communication that is not restricted to a privileged class simply because they can afford it, and whom everyone can make use of with almost zero resources.
That’s the written word, on paper, passed along via a public service that exists to enrich everyone, and not just those who are already fantastically wealthy.
Some sums are zero. Federal spending, once whatever debt accumulation is factored out, is one of them. Pretending it’s not is what happened to Greece.
Why do I need to “do better,” when I have an opinion? You may not agree, and I respect that. A good debate here is how we can progress as a society when it comes to issues like this. Hurling insults at each other doesn’t do that. I understand you may be personally affected by this, like I mean no disrespect or it’s not like I lack compassion for that, I have compassion. But I’m also a realist, we cannot just endlessly burn cash like this on these crown corps because people can’t adjust to new realities. That’s not a so called rich person perspective either, it’s again, a realist one.
Capital is not endless, we do not want to turn into the United States, where we endlessly face government funding shutdowns and unfathomable defecit spending because we shred money like they do. It’s important we run our assets efficiently, and when you are burning billions a year on mainly delivering junk mail to people, it’s kind of mind boggling. That’s not zero sum, it’s common sense. Bills only come (usually) but once a month, if you need to correspond with someone, why does that need to be delivered every day, individually, with hand to hand service?
I’m not for the complete elimination of snail mail either, it still needs to exist. They’ve laid out a path for it to exist, but it’s going to necessarily look a lot different than we are used to it looking. It’s the logical path forward.