The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is urging the national authorities to intervene successful the Canada Post strike, saying the enactment stoppage is damaging the country’s retail assemblage and having “considerable impact” to rural, bluish and distant communities.
The letter, cosigned by chambers of commerce from crossed the state and sent to Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon and Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, says the astir two-week-long onslaught is “yet different stroke to our proviso chains.”
It besides says the enactment stoppage has had a “disproportionate impact” to entrepreneurs and tiny businesses engaged successful e-commerce.
The enclosure adds the issues are exacerbated successful northern, agrarian and distant communities wherever “alternatives to Canada Post are not available.”
Earlier this week, MacKinnon pressed some the Crown corp and its workers’ national to urgently find a solution aft mediated talks were temporarily suspended Wednesday.
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He said successful a station connected X that the peculiar mediator had determined the parties “remain excessively acold isolated connected captious issues for mediation to beryllium palmy astatine this time.”
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In its letter, the enclosure said the country’s proviso chains person dealt with “constant strain” owed to flooding, wildfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and blockades and strikes past twelvemonth astatine the ports of B.C. and the St. Lawrence Seaway added to that.
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It besides noted the recent labour disputes astatine CN Rail and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) obstruction onslaught this summertime and the labour disputes at the B.C. and Montreal ports this fall.
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“There has simply been nary reprieve for Canadians counting connected unchangeable prices and predictable question of goods,” the enclosure notes successful its letter.
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The enclosure is not the archetypal to telephone connected the national authorities to intervene, however, with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business calling connected Ottawa aboriginal this week to measurement successful and extremity the occupation enactment by either imposing binding arbitration oregon back-to-work legislation.
In its letter, the enclosure issued a akin telephone for intervention, though it did not specifically accidental what enactment it would similar to see.
“While we admit your engagement and efforts to person each parties resume negotiations alongside national mediators, Canadian families, communities, and businesses request to spot a resolution,” the enclosure wrote.
MacKinnon said Wednesday binding arbitration was “not successful the cards” close now, though helium did not regularisation retired that way if nary advancement is seen.
Due to the Liberals’ number government, back-to-work authorities would request to beryllium passed with the assistance of astatine slightest 1 absorption enactment and the NDP has already ruled retired transition of immoderate specified bill, meaning the Conservatives oregon Bloc Quebecois would beryllium needed to enactment sending Canada Post workers backmost to work.
—with files from Global News’ Saba Aziz and Sean Boynton
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