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QuoteOTTAWA - More Canadians now favour privatizing CBC, Canada Post and Via Rail than favour keeping the Crown corporations in public hands.



A poll of 1,996 Canadians by Abacus Data found that 45% of those surveyed support or strongly support selling CBC compared to 34% who opposed the move, while 21% were undecided. Support for selling Canada Post was slightly higher with 47% backing a sale and 38% opposed. Via Rail had the highest level of support for privatization with 53% agreeing that the rail service should be sold off.



Conservative voters were most likely to support privatization overall but they were not alone. A majority of Liberal and NDP voters backed privatizing Via Rail, 57% and 51% respectively. When it came to the postal service 58% of Conservatives agreed with privatization, 51% of Liberals and just 42% of New Democrats.



Via Rail lost $334,754,000 in 2012 before a government subsidy of $279,133,000 kicked in. Canada Post lost $129 million in the third quarter of 2013 and losses are expected to mount as fewer people send mail the old-fashioned way.



A previous Abacus poll on privatizing CBC found just 33% backed selling off the state broadcaster. This latest poll shows a 12% jump in support and it too crosses party lines. Fully 63% of self-identified Conservative voters back privatizing CBC. More Liberals backed privatization than opposed it, 45% versus 39% and New Democrats were split with 44% supporting privatization and 45% opposing.



CBC receives more than $1 billion a year from taxpayers.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/29/canadians-ready-to-sell-cbc-and-canada-post-poll

Quote from: "Shen Li"Glad to see more Canadians are smartening up about taxpayer funded wastelands like CBC. Sell it along with Via and Canada Post. CN Rail went from being the worst class 1 railway on the continent to first in less than a decade after a real railroader(Hunter Harrison) took over from crony snivel serpents that wouldn't know what a double diamond sign along 105 territory track means.

QuoteOTTAWA - More Canadians now favour privatizing CBC, Canada Post and Via Rail than favour keeping the Crown corporations in public hands.



A poll of 1,996 Canadians by Abacus Data found that 45% of those surveyed support or strongly support selling CBC compared to 34% who opposed the move, while 21% were undecided. Support for selling Canada Post was slightly higher with 47% backing a sale and 38% opposed. Via Rail had the highest level of support for privatization with 53% agreeing that the rail service should be sold off.



Conservative voters were most likely to support privatization overall but they were not alone. A majority of Liberal and NDP voters backed privatizing Via Rail, 57% and 51% respectively. When it came to the postal service 58% of Conservatives agreed with privatization, 51% of Liberals and just 42% of New Democrats.



Via Rail lost $334,754,000 in 2012 before a government subsidy of $279,133,000 kicked in. Canada Post lost $129 million in the third quarter of 2013 and losses are expected to mount as fewer people send mail the old-fashioned way.



A previous Abacus poll on privatizing CBC found just 33% backed selling off the state broadcaster. This latest poll shows a 12% jump in support and it too crosses party lines. Fully 63% of self-identified Conservative voters back privatizing CBC. More Liberals backed privatization than opposed it, 45% versus 39% and New Democrats were split with 44% supporting privatization and 45% opposing.



CBC receives more than $1 billion a year from taxpayers.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/29/canadians-ready-to-sell-cbc-and-canada-post-poll

Quote from: "Rambo Wong"Canada should give the CBC and CN Rail to the Chinese people for Canada's racist past towards the Chinese people.

Quote from: "Real Woman"I could get behind CBC and Via Rail being sold but not Canada Post.  I imagine the privatize numbers are high because of the loss of home delivery.

Quote from: "Real Woman"I am too rural for home delivery.  I have to go to the post office to get mail but I still think it's crap.

Quote from: "Real Woman"It can be a pain to pick up mail like on really cold or snowy days.  It's much nicer to have it delivered to the door though.



It depends on the size of the "rural" city or town of you get home delivery or not.  Really rural areas usually have the community boxes or have to go to a post office.

Quote from: "Obvious Li"the state should not be in the business of business...it should focus on issues of national security not television or mail delivery..etc...............

QuoteMyth: Canada Post says it is no longer profitable.



Fact: Since the mid-1990s Canada Post has been profitable every single year -- except in 2011 when the company locked out 50,000 of its workers in an effort to weaken the union and its contract. In that time, Canada Post has fed over a billion dollars into the public purse.



Myth: Letter traffic is decreasing so much that a profitability crisis is inevitable; according to Canada Post the Internet is to blame.



Fact: Since 1989 -- before the advent of the Internet -- the volume of mail has actually increased. Parcel delivery has increased as letter volume has decreased. Private for-profit couriers make money delivering parcels, not letters.



Myth: The $6.5 billion shortfall in the Canada Post pension plan is a time bomb that can destroy the company.



Fact: The Canada Post pension plan is in decent shape. Unlike private-sector pensions, the Canadian government requires Canada Post to fund the pension plan at a higher level than the private sector. The current underfunding only means that if all Canada Post employees retired at once, they wouldn't get the entire pension they're due.



Under Harper, the Canadian government gave Canada Post a four-year reprieve from paying into the pension plan. With the money they saved, they invested $2 billion into new letter-sorting machines, even though letter volume is declining -- and is now being cited as a reason to cut Canada Post services! If money has been wasted, it was management's fault. There is no pension crisis.



Myth: Canada Post has to end home delivery -- there are no other options.



Fact: If Canada Post introduced postal banking it could become even more financially sound and offer even better services to the public, especially in rural areas where home delivery often doesn't exist. Many national postal services around the world offer postal banking which helps them stay afloat and even profitable. In fact, postal banking is exactly what the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is proposing for Canada Post.



Myth: Service cuts and increased costs are about saving Canada Post.



Fact: The service cuts and increased costs are about making the public upset with lack of services. The layoffs are about weakening the union. Cuts and layoffs are about preparing Canada Post's retail network of post offices and outlets -- the largest and most extensive retail network in the country -- and its unparalleled delivery services for privatization.



Canada Post is being prepared for privatization precisely because it is highly profitable.



Myth: Community super-boxes, which are to replace door-to-door delivery in urban areas, are safe and accessible.



Fact: Community super-boxes are not safe and accessible. A CBC report has revealed that there were 4,880 incidents of vandalism, arson and theft from these super-boxes between 2008 and 2013. There is also no guarantee that these super-boxes will be accessible for thousands who have mobility issues, seniors or the disabled. And Canada Post has no plans to consult us on where the community boxes are placed.





Canada Post management has a privatization agenda. CEO Deepak Chopra sits on the board of the Conference Board of Canada, a policy think-tank that writes papers proposing policies for the federal and provincial governments to turn into legislation. The Conference Board of Canada wrote a paper that favoured wholesale privatization of Canada Post. The paper even used faulty arguments and figures to justify privatization. In other words, sound and careful gathering of facts was dispensed in favour of ideologically-driven ideas.



Canadian companies, pro-corporate bureaucrats like Chopra, and their friends in the federal government have all watched Britain's Royal Mail sold-off well below its value. The privatization of Royal Mail ripped off the public. The privatized shares of the company were snatched up by major financial and corporate institutions, including many of the millionaires who populate the ruling British Conservative party.



Canada Post is a public service. It is owned by all Canadians. It should serve Canadians as an affordable and effective communications and delivery system, not as a cash cow for private interests at the expense of the public.



What needs to happen with Canada Post is an expansion of services like postal banking to improve services for rural Canada, saving home delivery for five million Canadian, and saving thousands of decent, hardworking jobs.



//http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/02/05/Ten-Myths-about-Canada-Post-Cuts/

QuoteThe B.C. Federation of Labour has been a Tyee financial contributor from the outset — providing 27 per cent of start-up costs and now about 12 per cent of operating costs — raising the issue of prounion bias. Beers sucks air at the question. "Everyone knows all about that," he says, referring to early concerns that the B.C. Feds were using the Tyee as a union mouthpiece. "If it reads like a union rag, come to my house, take me out back and put a bullet in my head," was his response.

http://archive.citycaucus.com/2009/05/diatribe-for-dollars-should-donors-dictate-editorial-bent

QuoteTides Canada invites left-wingers to give them the money, get a Tides charitable receipt, and then they promise to pass the cash right on to The Tyee to do their attack journalism. They're not hiding it. They're boasting about it. They have their own website showing you how to do it.



The Tyee couldn't get a charitable number on its own. No problem, the Canadian branch plant of those San Francisco bullies will make a tax loophole for them

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/16/its-time-to-raise-the-curtain-

Quote from: "Fashionista"I believe Canada Post is not doing well..



When I was a little girl we got mail every day, but now my parents receive very little.

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Quote from: "Fashionista"I believe Canada Post is not doing well..



When I was a little girl we got mail every day, but now my parents receive very little.

More and more people use internet to read their mail which is good for old people and people whom live in remote areas.

Quote from: "Fashionista"My parents use internet for some things, but not as much as we do..



I think they could adjust easily to no door to door delivery service.

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Quote from: "Fashionista"My parents use internet for some things, but not as much as we do..



I think they could adjust easily to no door to door delivery service.

You walk maybe a half block to your postal box and pick up your mail. Can't get out of the house ask a neighbour to check on it a couple times a week for you. The big thing about the changes is not ending ALL door to door delivery, it's the fucking increases in stamp prices. Municipal and provincial governments will pass on the extra costs to all of us.

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Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "Fashionista"My parents use internet for some things, but not as much as we do..



I think they could adjust easily to no door to door delivery service.

You walk maybe a half block to your postal box and pick up your mail. Can't get out of the house ask a neighbour to check on it a couple times a week for you. The big thing about the changes is not ending ALL door to door delivery, it's the fucking increases in stamp prices. Municipal and provincial governments will pass on the extra costs to all of us.

Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

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Quote from: "Shen Li"
You walk maybe a half block to your postal box and pick up your mail. Can't get out of the house ask a neighbour to check on it a couple times a week for you. The big thing about the changes is not ending ALL door to door delivery, it's the fucking increases in stamp prices. Municipal and provincial governments will pass on the extra costs to all of us.

Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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Quote from: "Shen Li"

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Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

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Quote from: "Fashionista"
Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

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Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

With that, how are you feeling these days Mr. Obvious Li?

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

With that, how are you feeling these days Mr. Obvious Li?

thx for asking fash.........starting to feel a little better.....except when one foot is pointing forward and one is pointing backward you tend to walk in circles a lot...i should have asked if that quack surgeon was dyslexic.....cheers :ugeek:

Quote from: "Obvious Li"

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "Fashionista"
Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

Quote from: "Obvious Li"

Quote from: "Shen Li"

Quote from: "Fashionista"
Not everyone has someone to collect their mail on their behalf..



I think there should be an exception for some people who need regular mail, but cannot go and pick it up on their own.

Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

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Quote from: "Shen Li"
Yeah, be like a fucking handicapped parking sticker eh?  :roll:

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

I'm jealous, you lucky son of a bitch.

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hehehe..the only good thing about this fucking operation is i got a handicap parking pass....so now i get the dragon to park the F150 about 6 fucking inches from the door of every business we go into and bail out......bloody hell it feels good...and it is good until the end of 2014...... :mrgreen:

I'm jealous, you lucky son of a bitch.

I saw someone that appeared able-bodied and with nothing visible in their vehicle to indicate they are disabled park in the handicapped stall this morning at Walmart when my daughter and I were grocery shopping.