Why did Ottawa wait so long to intervene in the Canada Post strike?

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Why did Ottawa wait so long to intervene in the Canada Post strike?
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There are many reasons for regarding Canada Post as an essential business, particularly during November and December

That was the good news. The bad news was that the meeting didn’t bring Canada Post and the union any closer to a settlement. Management’s response to the union’s latest set of proposals was to suggest that the “union’s intent appears to be to widen the gap in negotiations, rather than to close it.”

back to work. Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon also extended the existing collective agreement until May 2025. The strike’s most serious effects have been on Indigenous and other remote communities in the country’s North. The strike left these communities quite literally stranded. As Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, toldon Dec. 5, without Canada Post services there was “no way of moving goods and services through our communities in a timely and expedient fashion.” There is no other parcel-delivery service available to these communities.

, with donations reported to have been about 40 per cent lower than at the same time last year. In B.C., the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital Foundation says its annual Millionaire Lottery has seen a drop in ticket sales, since the charity relies on mail campaigns to get its message out.

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