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Minister defends changes allowing Canada Post to shutter rural offices

On Oct. 23, 2025, Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound told the House of Commons committee that recent mandate changes for Canada Post are not meant to reduce service in rural and remote communities.
Because the Crown corporation has suffered heavy losses, Canada Post has accumulated $5 billion in deficits since 2018 and required $1 billion in support earlier this year.
Ending the moratorium allows Canada Post to expand community mailbox service to roughly four million addresses, and Joël Lightbound said the changes could save $500 million annually.
The union condemned the changes and its members returned to the picket lines, with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers launching rotating strikes amid stalled bargaining.
William Kaplan's Industrial Inquiry Commission earlier this year reviewed prior studies and Ottawa adopted its recommendations to move quickly on a turnaround, while with the federal program review aiming to cut spending by 15 per cent, Lightbound said `The transformation has to begin`.

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Minister defends changes allowing Canada Post to shutter rural offices

The federal minister in charge of Canada Post says recent changes to the Crown corporation’s mandate are not aimed at reducing any service to rural and remote communities where the post office is a considered a lifeline.

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