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.
@Em0nM4stodon
I sent this among other messages to Carney:
"Canada Post is an essential service like sewers, roads,& garbage collection , should we cut back on that?
Why are you laying Canada's "financial woes" on the backs of most vulnerable?
What happened to the social in our democracy? Please explain. "
Easy.
Cutting #carney has always been a conservative, who ran as a liberal
Mulcair was a right wing liberal who led the #ndp
Weirdly, @emilylowan looks like an ecosocialist running the BC greens! Remember the brutal sick failure of #andrewweaver running the BC Greens? 🤬
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'Politicing' in Canada is so chaotic, and politicians more untrustworthy, it's no wonder people are tuning out .
Want to save Canada Post? Make it the deliverer of choice for products not Amazon. Canadian law could help.
Fed gov forbidden from.using non union delivery services, must not be foreign owned. Let people order stuff from the post office and its partners, like Walmart.
The Postal Service in the U.S. is a legal monopoly and has been going all the way back, if you ask me. Any private entity with as much of a monopoly on any industry would be made, by the Trade Commission, to sell off a certain portion of the company to a competitor. But since it's funded by our tax dollars, it's fine. Their website is USPS dot com instead of dot gov, even though it's government. That says a lot, I think.
EDIT: I'm trying to make the case that they are a for-profit, government, business in this country. You don't want that.
@[email protected] mm, I mean yes, I agree with that, though I don't agree with giving organizations a carte blanche simply because they're public services.
I heard (on the CBC) that Canada Post is hemorrhaging $10M a day. That's cause for some concern ...
Canada Post is on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025. The federal government announced a plan Thursday to modernize it, including ending home delivery. The union, which has been stuck in contract negotiations with the corporation, responded to the demands for reform by saying that effective immediately, all of its workers are on a nationwide strike.
Xactly
And that goes for all government operations.
Things like #NewPublicManagement, #Neoliberalism and the #WashingtonConsensus pushed politicians and civil servants to run the public like the private.
The #bCNDP gets back into power in 2017 and reverses like none of the tax cuts from the previous 16 years. 😳🤯
BC? Still in the resource exploitation #StaplesTrap.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens
@tomoyo @Em0nM4stodon Horizon was the Post Office, not Royal Mail, and even today the Post Office is attached to the Department of Business and Trade even if it's not longer a department in it's own right.
For that matter Horizon began before Royal Mail was separated and privatised.
Btw what the Post Office did, for the majority of cases, was be a private prosecutor, which is just a regular thing in English law, anyone with enough time/money can do it, there are random people right now using it to seek justice when the CPS doesn't want to, or even attempting to bring war-crimes charges against citizens who've gone to fight in other countries ‘wars’.
The danger wasn't so much that they had a special privilege, it's that they had a well funded legal department lacking in any ethics, helped along of course by Legal Aid not being fit for purpose, denying people a proper defence.
@Em0nM4stodon I'll make an unusual argument. Fossil fuel extraction and usage should be publicly controlled, tightly regulated, and phased out of daily use.
Why? That's easy.
It's the only presently viable way out of the gravity well. It's an insanely valuable finite resource we're pissing away.
@Em0nM4stodon right on. This just makes sense.
I’ll go further.
The resources of our nation should be developed for the profit of our people, not the benefit of company executives and shareholders.
These companies should fund public services.
Everything about this is universal.
Thanks to Canada for taking this leadership position.
Em 
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