Canada Post operations not ‘viable,’ Carney says amid strike action
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada Post is losing $10 million a day and must change to be viable. The post office's striking union says that demand will cripple the service.
In the wake of renewed strike action by Canada Post workers, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saturday morning that “significant changes” need to be made to make it “viable” as an organization.
Mail came to a halt on Thursday evening as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) walked off the job in response to the federal government’s proposed changes to Canada Post.
During a press conference in London, Carney stated that the Crown Corporation is hemorrhaging money, but plans have been put forward to reduce losses.
“At the moment, Canada Post is not viable. They lose more than $10 million a day — $10,000,000 a day, day after day. The situation needs to change,” he said.
“The government has indicated the corporation should move forward with some changes that are the start of a path towards viability,” the Prime Minister added.
Earlier this year, the federal government provided a $ 1-billion injection to the corporation to keep it operational. In the second quarter of 2025, Canada Post reported a loss of $407 million.
The government’s cost-saving suggestions, which were announced Friday by Joël Lightbound, the minister of government transformation, public works and procurement, include plans to adjust standards so that non-urgent mail can be transported by ground instead of air. They also recommend converting four million addresses to community mailboxes and lifting a more than 30-year-old moratorium on rural post offices, which the government referred to as a “long-standing barrier” to reform.
In response, Jan Simpson, national president of CUPW, a statement saying Lightbound’s announcement was “a direct assault on our public post office, the public’s right to participate in political processes, and good, unionized jobs across the country.”
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