An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act
Bill C-262 amends the Canada Post Corporation Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-10) to update the federal Crown corporation's mandate. Restores door-to-door delivery to roughly 1.2 million urban households whose service was converted to community mailboxes between 2014 and 2018 under the Harper government's conversion program (suspended by Trudeau in 2015), launches a postal-banking pilot in rural and Indigenous communities (Canada last offered postal banking in 1969), and sets minimum rural-service standards. Sponsor is from the NDP, a long-running party file since the Stephen Lewis-era postal-policy debates.
Status
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Updates Canada Post's federal mandate: restores door-to-door delivery, launches a postal-banking pilot, and sets rural-service standards. Long-running NDP private member's bill.
Issues this bill touches
- Cost of Living
Repeals the Canada Post statutory letter-mail monopoly and lays a path to commercial competition. Affordability and access debate is the public-facing frame.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the House of Commons.
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