I thought a number of things mentioned by Mr. Chopra yesterday were surprising. I'm going from memory.
I remember his saying that they lost $300 million in revenue in 2009 and talking about what a bad situation Canada Post was in in 2009. He neglected to mention that in 2009, they actually reported their largest profit in corporate history. I thought that was a little funny.
I thought it was strange that he would talk about the role of management and CUPW in innovation, and frankly, he was heaping a lot of praise on us that we've never heard before outside of a room like this.
Again, he completely neglected to mention that we have our appendix âTâ committee, and our urban collective agreement, which is the service expansion in innovation and change committee. This is actually a joint committee with two management representatives and two union representatives.
He also failed to mention that they spent the last year demanding that this be cut out of our collective agreement. It was actually one of the last issues left on the table before we were able to settle.
I think we met a very different Deepak Chopra yesterday than we are used to, to be honest.