I wouldn't presume to assume what the Prime Minister is doing or thinking. What I do know is that a great many of the statistics upon which Canada Post has relied to justify its actions are either misleading or out-and-out false. The task force, I believe, relied on certain figures indicating that Canada Post projected a significant loss in the neighbourhood of $200 million, when, I think, it was in 2014 that Canada Post produced a profit of $94 million.
I'm not sure where the numbers come from, and we can cherry-pick numbers all we like, but I do suspect that the figures Canada Post and the task force are using have more to do with strategically positioning themselves according to a particular ideological position, as opposed to representing the common interests of the Canadian public.