CANADA POST STRIKE: Why It's Important

Wow, 26 days since the postal workers went out on strike.^[1] But why won’t the government order them back to work, as “essential services”?

It isn’t as if this isn’t costing Canadians BILLIONS of dollars.^[2] It isn’t as if this isn’t making a mockery of Canada’s public service and government, around the world. It isn’t as if this isn’t harming some of the most vulnerable. And it isn’t as if the management knows what they are doing, with the debt that Canada Post has.

All of that said, one can only imagine why this government would order the rail workers back and yet sit idly by, forcing small business, medium business, Canadians with health issues, those far from home, not prosper and receive what should be a no brainer – their mail.

Mismanagement aside, considering Canada Post has, basically, a monopoly, why hasn’t the government ordered their own workers back to work? Yes, I know, they say it’s a Crown Corp., but isn’t that basically saying it is under the control of the Crown, of which is to be administered by government?

Here’s merely one reason. Remember how government was putting small business out of business because they didn’t have the internet, “almost one-in-four Canadians (24%) had either no engagement or only very limited engagement with the Internet and digital technologies in late 2018 or early 2019?" ^[3]

How, these, small business didn’t do “banking on-line.” Wouldn’t/couldn’t do their “corporate reporting,” “G.S.T. reporting,” their “W.S.I.B. reporting,” their “income tax, CPP, EI reporting,” and were forced to do it on-line or go out of business, of which Canadians turned their backs on said small businesses.

Well, to ensure those nails were the last in the coffin of small/medium size businesses, across Canada, the government needed something to finish the job of finally putting those, computer/internet illiterate out of business. What does the Union/Government do – in comes a Canada Post strike that finally finished the job. Nope, again, not a conspiracy theory…

Ah, you say you need proof. Well, Canada has the Sustainable Development Act. Under that Act, the Canadian government, to fulfill their obligations under the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (UN 17 SDGs), needs to ensure that everyone in Canada does everything online. This is included in section 4 and 17 of those SDGs. (See attached.)

This is where the rubber meets the road. As you, now, may be aware of, China has been involved with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals since Agenda 2030’s inception, developed by China and integrated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. What might not be common knowledge is, that this department, of the UN, also includes the global internet governance.

Here you go…What is obvious is that China, in its role of the UN Under-Secretary General, since 2007,^[4] has brought forward the “created need” for its own benefit. There seems to be a direct conflict of interest with the statements of the UN Secretary General with the promotion of the BRI^[5] when speaking of the BRI cooperation with the UN SDGS and with the Under-secretary General – DESA – being from China. 

What should also be very concerning, to the Western Democracies, is that these Under-Secretaries (2007 to present) have been involved in/as:

• Serves as the Convenor of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, Advises the United Nations Secretary-General on all development-related issues, including climate change, internet governance, and financing for development.
• Currently serving as the Secretary-General of the third International Conference on Financing for Development.
• Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, guides UN Secretariat support for the follow-up processes of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.^[6]

And to continue with why this is so deceptive and harmful to Western democracies;

“Developing countries have several options for financing the implementation of SDG [Sustainable Development Goals] 1.3. This includes re-allocating public expenditures; increasing tax revenue; expanding social security coverage and contributory revenues; official development assistance; eliminating illicit financing flows; and managing debt, including borrowing or restructuring existing debt (Ortiz and others, 2017).

"For example, governments could replace high-cost, low-impact investments with others offering higher socioeconomic return identified by undertaking public expenditure reviews, …. This could include shifting budget allocations away from military expenditures to social protection programmes…” - Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.

So, a simple thing as a postal strike has now turned into our government intentionally harming Canadians only to satisfy China through its UN proxy. What’s next, you might be asking? Only time will tell, but as shown, our government will do anything to fulfill their ill-conceived duty to some foreign entity, to the detriment of all Canadians and our national security.

Guess those small businesses are looking a little more important, now, don’t they, considering they are the canary in the mine for everyone else when it comes to this government and the UN/China dictates…

Until next time…

Footnotes

1. Canada Post strike on day 26 as union sends new proposals
2. Canada's government has power to end Canada Post strike with back-to-work legislation, but should it?
3. Internet-use Typology of Canadians: Online Activities and Digital Skills
4. Previous Under Secretary-General of DESA
   • Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General.
   • Sustainable Development Outlook 2020
   • Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General
5. Belt and Road Initiative.
6. UN Sustainable Development (Goals) Outlook 2020, Chapter II. Achieving prosperity in the wake of COVID-19 p. 23.