The Political Stunt That Killed Canada Post’s Last Chance at Relevance

The Political Stunt That Killed Canada Post’s Last Chance at Relevance

The most short-sighted political stunt that I saw during my time in Ottawa happened in 2015 in the months before the election that would end my time in the Stephen Harper government. The impact of this stunt, and the dumb policy that surrounded it, is still affecting the country a decade later, so it is worthy of a short case study. The stunt emanated from the strange political alliance of third-party leader Justin Trudeau and his former parliam…