Mr. Speaker, October 16 is the 20th anniversary of Canada Post. While Canadians give Canada Post a passing grade in general, it gets a big fat F for failure when it comes to its treatment of its rural route mail couriers.
These couriers are the only group of workers in the country who are specifically barred from any of the basic rights that all employees are guaranteed in Canada. Subsection 13(5) of the Canada Post Corporation Act denies rural route mail couriers the right to vacations, statutory holidays, pensions, employment insurance, Canada pension plan, health and safety legislation, or the right to free collective bargaining that all Canadians enjoy under the charter.
We should mark the 20th anniversary of Canada Post by fixing this historic injustice once and for all. The government should delete subsection 13(5) of the act and give these hardworking Canadians the rights that all Canadian workers enjoy.