Charles Sousa at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On April 15th, 2024. See this statement in context.

April 15th, 2024 / 12:10 p.m.

Liberal

Charles Sousa Liberal Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you for appearing before us.

In 2003, Canada Post agreed to recognize rural route contractors as employees, represented by CUPW. They're known as rural and suburban mail carriers. In 2005, CPAA signed a memorandum of agreement with CUPW that a bargaining unit of the rural and suburban mail carriers was appropriate. CUPW agreed to respect the separate bargaining rights of CPAA.

As you're well aware, there's no definition for “rural” in the rural moratorium.

Could you please provide the respective definitions for rural and suburban mail carriers?

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