We need your help. We are asking all friends of social justice and democracy to take concrete action, and help protect the public postal service.

Operation Transparency is a bold campaign from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Operation Transparency has clear objectives:

• obtain the release of strategic planning documents from Canada Post;
• win a moratorium on the closures of plants and post offices (including the announced closure of a major facility in Quebec City);
• launch a public debate on any plans to reduce, privatize or deregulate our public postal service.

A new president and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Moya Greene, took the helm at Canada Post on May 16, 2005. Her first major public decision was to announce she was closing the mail sorting plant in Quebec City. This would eliminate hundreds of jobs in the area.

Is this an isolated decision? Or is this only the first in a series of closures that will gradually undermine the quality of our postal service? How can we find out?

We have asked Canada Post to reveal its intentions. Repeatedly. To no avail.

Over 130,000 people have signed petitions, there have been numerous demonstrations by members of the Union. Over 800 municipalities, countless public figures and many MP’s have made their position known to Canada Post. They all have asked Canada Post with one voice: cancel the closure of the mail sorting plant in Quebec City and proposed closures in other locations, consult us before you make any change to our postal network, and expand the public postal service. It is now time to demand answers.

This is why we are launching Operation Transparency. We will force Canada Post to release all of its planning documents, all of its service scenarios, all of its projects that may impact the postal network.

What is Canada Post's Plan?

Which post offices, in which village, in which small municipality, in which urban centre are slated for closure? What levels of downsizing are being planned? How will service be impacted? Are there plans to privatize or deregulate?

Before it is too late, we need to know.

We are calling on all of our members, allies and friends, elected politicians from all parties, at all levels, everyone who want to protect the post office. Together, let us demand that Canada Post make all of its plans and scenarios public by May 15, 2006.

If the Corporation’s intentions are good, we will be reassured. If they aren’t, we want to debate them.

And if Canada Post will not publish the documents, let us act together. We will call upon the proud tradition of nonviolent direct action.

If we must, we will retrieve the documents ourselves. We may go the full length of Gandhi-inspired civil disobedience, and conduct a search for the documents where they can be found: in the offices of Canada Post.

Together, let’s open the debate on the future of our public postal service

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