We need a national, public carrier that provides a baseline, perhaps subsidized mail and parcel service that facilitates trade by everyone who isn’t Amazon or Walmart. Looking at parcel market share today is meaningless given that Amazon is the largest player in online orders by far and they use this market position to operate their own parcel services at rock bottom prices. We need everyone else to be able to ship reliably and cheaply. Like the coffee equipment store in Alberta I order from. Or some store on the other side of that GTA. Canada Post does this today and it should continue to do it tomorrow while providing well paying jobs. I hope Carney has similar thoughts on the issue and recognises CP as a necessary economic growth infrastructure for Canada.
In addition this would keep what FedEx and UPS can charge lower as well as keep their workers’ salaries higher. Also the major private carriers are American and FedEx is already using gig subcontractors to deliver. Many of those FedEx trucks have a small subtext saying something like “Operated by ACME Shipping Ltd”
We need a national, public carrier that provides a baseline, perhaps subsidized mail and parcel service that facilitates trade by everyone who isn’t Amazon or Walmart. Looking at parcel market share today is meaningless given that Amazon is the largest player in online orders by far and they use this market position to operate their own parcel services at rock bottom prices. We need everyone else to be able to ship reliably and cheaply. Like the coffee equipment store in Alberta I order from. Or some store on the other side of that GTA. Canada Post does this today and it should continue to do it tomorrow while providing well paying jobs. I hope Carney has similar thoughts on the issue and recognises CP as a necessary economic growth infrastructure for Canada.
In addition this would keep what FedEx and UPS can charge lower as well as keep their workers’ salaries higher. Also the major private carriers are American and FedEx is already using gig subcontractors to deliver. Many of those FedEx trucks have a small subtext saying something like “Operated by ACME Shipping Ltd”