Overview

• House Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia denied the NDP’s request for an emergency Commons debate on Canada Post, saying he could reconsider if the situation warrants.
• Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger endorsed the government’s plan in an open letter, calling mailbox conversions a source of significant savings and pledging to protect rural, remote, northern and Indigenous service while downsizing mainly through attrition.
• The federal directive allows Canada Post to switch about four million addresses from door-to-door to community mailboxes over nine years, end daily weekday delivery, close some post offices and relax delivery standards.
• The Canadian Union of Postal Workers remains on a national strike launched in response to the changes, arguing they threaten jobs and opposing operational proposals such as dynamic routing.
• Ministers cite steep losses and a federal loan of up to $1.034 billion as reasons for reform, and Canada Post is due to present a strategic plan to the government by the second week of November.