Government Operations committee  The collective agreement allowed it. There was no more daytime work. Under a provision of the collective agreement, those workers were moved to other shifts. Unfortunately, when you are a single parent head of household, you have no other option. You cannot be away from home beca

Government Operations committee  I will confirm that it is not. Canada Post is not innovative when it comes to services, unfortunately, but it has to start to be. It should also innovate in the area of employee and customer relations. That is a major failing.

Government Operations committee  I have no idea, because we cannot consider offering Internet service. I suppose they must do their transactions by Internet, but we in the village do not have access to it.

Government Operations committee  No. I'm sorry, I spoke to you thinking it was clear to everyone. These are really franchises, whether they are in Brunet or Jean Coutu or Pharmaprix, where a Canada Post franchise has been opened at the back of the pharmacy. However, they are not Canada Post employees. They do n

Government Operations committee  I do not have any statistics on that. All I have is a lot of examples. We work on the ground and we talk with customers. They often tell us that the pharmacy employee lost their parcel or cannot find their passport. When it is real Canada Post offices and real Canada Post employe

Government Operations committee  There was no work for them anymore. There are employees who were forced to resign. In an office with 50 letter carriers that two weeks later has only 35, I think there were job losses, both for the region and for the workers. What I am saying is that Canada Post forced people to

Government Operations committee  I have two examples that come to mind. We spent nearly two years campaigning against the closings of post offices in urban areas and we succeeded in getting hold of the figures for the Chicoutimi-Nord post office that was closed. That post office exceeded its targets by more than

Government Operations committee  And there is no work for part-time employees.

Government Operations committee  I have just told you that workers in various categories lost their jobs.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I will say a bit more about that. In the case of the single mothers, I was saying that people learned they were going to have to work nights starting the next week. Those people were not able to stay and had no choice but to resign and leave.

Government Operations committee  No, but people were forced to leave.

Government Operations committee  I wasn't finished. I was also talking about temporary employees who were waiting...

Government Operations committee  ... to get jobs at Canada Post. There is no work for them now.

Government Operations committee  I agree with you completely when you say we have reached a crossroads, but we have to choose which road to take. The management of Canada Post has chosen its road: cutting services, rationalizing and pinching pennies, as they say. However, that is not necessarily the best road to

Government Operations committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I am a postal worker from the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region, a region that has been hard hit over the last few years. In the last five years, Canada Post has closed 50% of the urban retail points of sa