PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2014 CANADA POST REGION NOT SPARED BY CUTS GASPÉ — The Member of Parliament for Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Philip Toone, along with the Mayor of Gaspé, Daniel Côté, and the local representative of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Lucie Roy, and its national coordinator, Alain Robitaille, joined voices today at a press conference at the Gaspé city hall to denounce the impact of Canada Post’s reforms on services in the region. After cutting hours at many post offices in the region, Canada Post has just announced that a private post office will open in Place Jacques-Cartier in Gaspé, not far from the current post office on De la Reine Street. “The opening of this office confirms the fears of Canada Post employees in Gaspé of seeing a private post office open steps from theirs in order to deliberately decrease traffic on De la Reine Street and justify the post office’s eventual closing,” said MP Philip Toone, who believes the government’s intentions are clear: it wants to privatize Canada’s postal service. The post office on De la Reine Street currently employs four full-time employees and one part-time employee. “The federal government is putting more than the quality of postal services at risk by supporting Canada Post’s reforms. It’s putting quality jobs at risk,” added Daniel Côté, saying that many municipalities in the Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands have already adopted resolutions denouncing these reforms. “Over the next five years, between 6,000 and 8,000 workers will lose their jobs and some 5 million households will lose their door-to-door mail delivery. Seniors and people with reduced mobility will suffer the most,” concluded the CUPW representatives. – 30 –
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:04:24 +0000
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