Hate it all you want, but until you can establish a viable third party (who isn’t also awful), “lesser of two evils” is the only choice you have.

No one said Obama wasn’t also evil. In fact, no one mentioned him at all. And he wasn’t one of the options in the last election. Why are you so obsessed with him?

I’m not sure those two really do. Any Russian claims have been proven suspect, and China’s force protection has always been their Achilles heel.

There are other services the government provides that cannot (and should not) be operated for profit (ie healthcare).

I already said this.

Iran has no ability to do that.

Parcel delivery is a service that can be run for a profit (by real couriers like UPS, FEDEX, etc, not those bullishit Amazon couriers). There are other services the government provides that cannot (and should not) be operated for profit (ie healthcare). I would much rather my tax dollars go towards that, rather than operating Canada Post at a loss.

Tax revenue is a fixed size pool of money. Canada Post may not need to make a profit, but it does need to break even. There are many other things that money needs to be spent on.

This whole saga is so incredibly frustrating. You have a situation where things have to change. The management is trying to restructure because the money does not exist to maintain the status quo. The Union refuses to budge, and based on this article, their best solution is to legislate away the competition? Even if that were to happen, it’s not Canada Post management that will be making that decision, and it’s effects would not be immediate. Does the union just plan to sit at home forever?