Mr. Opstad, what is your job?
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.
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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NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
You're a letter carrier, so you are simply trying to offer a more efficient way of how the letter carriers can do their job.
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NDP
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Director, Alberta/Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
No. Thank you very much.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Just for all of our panels, once again, the NDP caucus can't go without Linda Duncan for more than 24 hours, and that's why she's flying back—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Thank you for being here, Ms. Duncan.
Our next intervenor will be Mr. Whalen.
Go ahead, please, for seven minutes.
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Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Opstad, your story raises two issues. The first one is a business ethics issue and the other one is a missed opportunity.
Could you finish your story and let us know what happened after you contacted the minister and where things have gone?
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As an Individual
I sent her this in May. Actually, my MP is Randy Boissonnault, so I gave it to his assistant, whose name was Tony, on January 4, and while I kept trying to see Randy just about every week, he said that he would be back next week, next week, and next week. On February 26, he gave me back all my stuff because Randy wouldn't be interested in looking at it. Then I sent this to Judy Foote. I didn't get a reply back from her.
Randy Boissonnault was having a barbecue on August 27, so I gave it all to Randy Boissonnault again. I actually gave it to him. I didn't give it to his assistant. I asked if he would give me a reply and he said, “No, I can't give you a reply.” I asked why not and he said it was because it was in front of the minister. That's the last I've heard of it.
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Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
Okay. When you first met with the software designer people, ostensibly from Canada Post, were they in-house people?
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As an Individual
Actually, he is at Canada Post. The last page I gave was that LinkedIn one. That's the guy I was actually talking to.
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Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
It wasn't as though you were someone from outside the organization with what you were offering.
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Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
It was another Canada Post employee, just like you, who was working on the plan of creating....
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Liberal
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As an Individual
Well, he is actually officially doing that for Canada Post.