{"id":150,"date":"2016-07-08T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-05-16T04:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:49:56","slug":"privatize-canada-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/2016\/07\/08\/privatize-canada-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatize Canada Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Open&nbsp;Postal&nbsp;Service to Competition and Privatize&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time to consider liberalizing the&nbsp;postal&nbsp;market as well as privatizing&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadians&nbsp;have long benefited from the competition existing in the market for parcels and letters over 500 g. There are simply no reasons to protect&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post&rsquo;s monopoly for letters weighing less than 500 g, whose volume continues to decrease year by year, by 6% last year only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The choice is clear between the two models. Monopolies have less incentives to reduce costs and improve services.&nbsp;Postal&nbsp;services should operate in a competitive environment, just like any other sector of the economy. Opening to competition and privatization are the keys to reducing costs and ensuring that&nbsp;Canadians&nbsp;are never again denied services when there is a labour dispute at the Crown Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open&nbsp;Postal&nbsp;Service to Competition and Privatize&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post It is time to consider liberalizing the&nbsp;postal&nbsp;market as well as privatizing&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post. Canadians&nbsp;have long benefited from the competition existing in the market for parcels and letters over 500 g. There are simply no reasons to protect&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Post&rsquo;s monopoly for letters weighing less than 500 g, whose volume continues to decrease year by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}