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Today, a coalition of private Canadian and international mail companies is strongly urging the next federal government, once it takes office, to rein in immediately Canada Post which has sought injunctions against a number of private postal providers in a bid to expand its monopoly over international mail delivery and effectively kill thousands of Canadian jobs linked to Canada’s thriving Dollars 100-million outbound mail industry. It also calls for a parliamentary review of the exclusive privilege provisions of the Canada Post Corporation Act as soon as Parliament gets back to business. “It is totally unacceptable that, after over 20 years of open and fair competition, Canada Post now says it has a monopoly over outbound mail and is trying to put us out of business,” says Gwyneth Howell, spokesperson for the Canadian International Mail Association which represents the interests of a number of private mail companies such as Key Mail Canada and Spring Global Mail, smaller letter shops operating all across the country, as well as some of Canada’s biggest printing companies.

Richard Thornton, a Mississauga, Ont., business owner, is in the fight of life against Canada Post Corp. He and other operators in the 100-million dollar international mail delivery market are in danger of being shut down by the Crown corporation. Canada Post has two court rulings in its pocket giving the Crown corporation the power to put Mr. Thornton’s Key Mail International out of business after 17 years. Mr. Thornton is pinning his hopes now with the justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, to which his lawyers have sought leave to appeal. Mr. Thornton said he believes this is a new, aggressive effort on Canada Post’s to use loopholes in the law to shut down its rivals. Key Mail, along with Spring Canada, he said, is at the top of Canada Post’s hit list. Other Canada Post targets range from letter shops to Canada’s biggest printers – Quebecor World, St. Joseph and Transcontinental – which are engaged, in one way or another, in the business of handling mail destined for outside Canadian borders.