Canada Post rubberstamped $30.8 million in bonuses for its managers and executives in 2025, according to the Crown corporation’s report to Parliament’s government operations committee.
The average bonus for its executives and managers was about $13,000.
Canada Post refused to break down how much it gave its executives. Instead, it buried executive bonuses inside the management total. It also didn’t disclose what percentage of executives took a bonus.
The Crown corporation also refused to disclose how much bonuses cost for its non-management staff.
Canada Post has consistently tried to withhold its bonus information and even ignored access-to-information laws.
The CTF filed an access-to-information request for Canada Post’s 2025 bonus records on Feb. 23, 2026. The Crown corporation refused to release bonus records for months until members of Parliament forced the Crown corporation to disclose the records to the parliamentary committee. And even then, Canada Post failed to disclose the whole bonus picture.
Canada Post handed out $30.8 million in bonuses in 2025 even though it lost hundreds of millions of dollars and took a taxpayer-funded bailout.
The federal government gave Canada Post a $1.03 billion bailout in 2025. Canada Post is supposed to pay that funding back to taxpayers “in so far as [Canada Post’s] revenues are sufficient.”
The bailout was “intended to carry the corporation through the government’s fiscal year ending March 31, 2026,” wrote Canada Post. “However, the funding was insufficient due to the severity of the corporation’s financial situation.”
So the government announced up to another $1.01 billion for Canada Post in February 2026 “as a short-term financial bridge.”
Canada Post rubberstamped bonuses even though it suffered the largest “loss before tax on record,” according to the Crown corporation.
