Canada Post Corporation

October 27, 2006 · Posted in Conservatism.ca 

With the exception of the composition of Parliament, all the other ingredients are in place to finally privatize Canada Post Corporation.

Unfortunately, we are now behind most other countries. Here’s why we need to put the process in place, so the next majority government can take some action on this file:

1. The EU has just ruled that postal monopolies will lose this status by 2009.

2. Japan has started restructuring their mammoth postal monopoly in preparation for privatization of the pieces.

3. The UK killed Royal Mail’s postal monopoly at the beginning of this year.

4. The current CEO of Canada Post Corporation was sitting at the table when Canadian National Railways was privatized. She knows how this process works.

5. Germany’s Deutsche Post has built a global deliver powerhouse that competes aggressively against such rivals as UPS and FedEx.

Our choices are to allow Canada Post to wind down into an obsolete non-entity, continue to encourage it to compete unfairly in competitive commercial markets (the only reason they are not losing money every year), or release it to fairly compete in the private sector, giving consumers real choice, and stopping the distortion of private sector markets.

Conservatives need to sit up and take notice of what’s happening with the delivery market worldwide.

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Comments

  • prognosticator

    Why stop at Canada Post? The biggest federal crown corp is CMHC. It sucks up $2 Billion in federal transfers a year, and another $2 Billion from low-middle income homeowners who require high ratio mortgage ‘insurance’. It would be a major improvement to the finances of the country and lives of Canadians if either or both were privatized.

  • Paul Holmes

    I agree. CMHC is an unfair tax that puts the brunt of Federal Housing costs on the middle class, and completely bypasses the rich.

    If there is flat taxes and progressive taxes, this tax is clearly in the ‘hilly’ category.