Evidence of meeting #44 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was community.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
How do you do your route? Do you do what this other gentleman—
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As an Individual
Yes, I do the letters and the parcels together, so I have a big truck.
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As an Individual
Yes. It's basically like the old system, except that in the old system we used to have those relay boxes, so basically my truck is like a relay box. I get out of my truck and I deliver in a certain area, and then I get back in my truck and do another area.
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
There's something I wanted to ask you gentlemen, because it's come up. A lot of people think the answer for everything is a three-days-a-week service, but my understanding is that it's just not practical or possible because of the Admail and the parcel delivery.
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As an Individual
The Admail is just a huge, huge money-maker for Canada Post. It charges the customer, 15 cents, 20 cents, 25 cents, even 50 cents per piece for Admail, and the customer brings it to the post office. A union person brings it straight to the carrier and they pay the carrier two cents or three cents per piece to deliver those items.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
I'm going to interrupt you, because we're out of time, but that's what I wanted to hear and—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
You are out of time.
Our final intervention will be from Madam Ratansi for five minutes.
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Thank you.
Madam Brousseau, I have a question for you.
You say that 95% of your workforce is women. How many postmasters or assistant postmasters are there within the environment you operate in?
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Director, Alberta/Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
The membership consists of 1,812 semi-staff postmasters. There are 3,035 full-time and part-time employees.
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Director, Alberta/Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
Yes.
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
You know, there are full-time employees and there are part-time employees.
When we look at our budgets, we say to every department, “You need to use a gender lens.” Through that gender lens, we want to ensure that women, families, children, and so forth benefit from our tax policies and so on.
How do you think this is impacting the quality of life for your 95% women if they are not getting the work hours?
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Director, Alberta/Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
In my rural area it's hard to keep term and part-time employees because eventually they need more money for the kids with hockey and dance. They need more hours, so they usually end up quitting a part-time job. Who wants to work ten hours a week and be tied to a job? We do lose a lot of women because things are going in that direction.
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
How do you replenish it? There has been talk about elitists, and I'm sure you are not the elitist here. We have to do a reality check. What do you do? How do you get more women? How do you get more workers, actually?
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Director, Alberta/Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
We put out an advertisement and try to get it out there.