Is Canada Post Needed？ Think Of The Savings If It Was Gone.
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Summary
The strike in Canada has become a nothing burger as the days go on. I wonder if we need a national postal service like the U.S. Postal Service. Do you need one where you live? Is that necessary? When there are other ways to get things done.
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Hi, it's John. Welcome to the channel. Enjoying a cup of coffee Wednesday, November the 20th.
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And today I want to talk about efficiency. Kind of a buzzword right now if you're following what's
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going on south of the border in the United States as Donald Trump named Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon
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Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Saving some money for taxpayers.
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Isn't that wonderful? And here's the thing, the left in the United States is totally against it,
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of course, right? They're against that kind of thing here as well. I think it's wonderful. I
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mentioned a few days ago that Kevin O'Leary, who is a Canadian, should head up the Canadian
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Department of Government Efficiency when Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives take control in October
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of 2025. I'm very hopeful that that will happen. Now, why am I bringing this up? Well, it's about
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something that happened here on Friday. Big story in Canada, but this story has become virtually a
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nothing burger as the days have gone by. So, on Friday, 55,000 people went on strike and they're
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government employees. If I were to go in the street and ask people about this, they would
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probably not even know about it. So, here's the headline from the National Post. Canada Post
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Union sit with mediator, but sides remain far apart as strike drags on. Subheading. About 55,000
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employees walked off the job on Friday, shutting down operations and halting deliveries as the
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Christmas season approaches. We're just a little over a month from Christmas. Again, if I walked
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out in a couple hours here in Calgary and asked people if they knew there was a postal strike, a lot
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of them wouldn't even know. And if they did, I'll bet you if I asked them if it affected them, they would
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say no. And it hasn't affected me. It's going on three, three, four days now. Haven't got any mail.
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Now, other than getting pizza pamphlets, window replacement pamphlets, and alcohol pamphlets,
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I can't tell you the last time I received anything through Canada Post. What do all of these employees
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do? Now, of course, businesses use Canada Post, but there are other ways of delivering things
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that are more efficient. And I don't have to pay my tax dollars to pay for the people to do it for me.
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You know, I sent a package to my sisters back in the summertime. It took a week and a half to get
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there. I had to pay a lot more to get it there overnight. I could have paid a lot less by going to
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Purelator, DHL, FedEx. It would have got there overnight, and it was cheaper. And I didn't have to pay
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the person with my tax dollars who was helping me with my delivery. You know, our government here has
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grown by 40% since Trudeau got in back in 2015. What do all these people do? So the question is
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this. Do we need a national postal service? Do you need one where you live? There's the USPS in the
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United States. I'm sure Britain and Australia have them. Do you need that? Is that necessary?
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When there are these private companies that can do it better and cost a lot less? You know,
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the left would say that these employees, the postal employees, are getting paid by the government.
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No. Taxpayers pay for that. Really do. It bothers me so much when I read online, particularly when
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health care pops up, and you see American nitwits on there saying, well, Canadians have free health
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care. No, we don't. We pay a lot of money in our taxes for our health care system, which is
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crumbling. Socialized medicine doesn't work. Does socialized postal delivery? Socialized broadcasting,
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like the CBC. Are these things needed anymore? How much more efficient would we be? And how much
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more of my tax dollars could I keep if we didn't have to pay all these people? And it's not my job
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or the government's job to employ people, but there's more and more of them all the time. Even
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during recession, the only thing that grows is government. While people are losing their jobs in
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the private sector, the government's hiring more people all the time. Ronald Reagan had a saying,
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the scariest words in the English language, I'm from the government and I'm from the government
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and I'm here to help, right? Right? Right? The government shouldn't be doing a lot of things.
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The government only has a few jobs. One of them is security, right? The most important thing is
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security. And most governments around the world right now, they're not even doing a very good job
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at that. Look at all the people who are coming into our countries illegally and the government
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ain't doing a good job of keeping them out, are they?