You would think the post office’s decades-long record of inability to do the one job it is asked to do — deliver the mail with some regularity — would occasion some rethinking of its mandate, perhaps to allow competition in mail delivery, as other countries have done, rather than continue to enforce a monopoly on a service that, over much of the country, it refuses to provide.
Instead, the committee’s Liberal majority proposes, not only that the post office should continue to do everything it does now, only at greater public expense, but that it should expand its mandate to the very frontiers of the known technological world, circa 1993. Excited by the untold possibilities of a network of computers some are calling “the Information Superhighway,” the committee suggests Canada Post might stem its losses on conventional mail by venturing into a service known as “email.”
I am not making this up. “Canadians need access to made and hosted in Canada free digital infrastructure to facilitate trusted communications between themselves and government and with each other,” the report claims. “Canada Post could play a pivotal role in providing the basis for a Canadian social network — authentication service, email and block chain authority for the benefit of Canadians.”
The committee majority’s apparent belief that there is an untapped market for email or a shortage of social networks would be bizarre enough. But who in their right mind would propose that Canada Post should be the one to fill it? This isn’t just “the triumph of hope over experience.” It is evidence of severe cognitive dysfunction.
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