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December 31, 2015 in Scumbag of the Year

12465070_10101130143660745_176479473_oThe votes are in and it is official, Deepak Chopra is the winner RankandFile.ca’s Scumbag of the Year award for 2015. Chopra, the president and CEO of Canada Post, trounced a strong field of contenders in our open voting. Each of his competitors would have been a worthy choice. But rarely has a candidate united so many people from across the country. Chopra has been working hard to win this award, he was nominated but lost last year.

In 2011 Chopra was appointed by the Harper government to his position. Previously he worked for Pitney Bowes, a multinational company specializing in mail, parcel and information technology. His tenure at Canada Post started by pushing 50,000 workers onto a rotating strike and then locking them out in the spring of 2011. Canada Post was aiming to rollback sick days, lengthen routes and and force letter carriers into unsafe working conditions. The lockout was eventually settled by the government ordering workers back to work, mandating a wage settlement and the government declaring that Canada Post was a vital service for the economy.

Less than two years later, just days after the House of Commons broke for the winter holidays, Chopra and Canada Post, announced they will be ending door-to-door mail service, cutting thousands of jobs and upping postage prices. Merry *bleep* Christmas! Chopra then lied about doing consultations about this drastic change and he even had the gall to say old people told him they would welcome going to community mailboxes instead of home delivery, because they needed the exercise.

Part of the justification of the changes at Canada Post were its profitability. Chopra and others in Canada Post’s management pointed to a Conference Board of Canada report stating the crown corporation was losing money and mail volumes were declining rapidly. The study however compared the quarter of after the lockout, when mail volumes were massive and backlogged with the following year to show a steep decline. The study’s skewed results didn’t take into account this or the explosion in growth of parcel delivery. Hence they predicted Canada Post would lose $400 million in 2014, when in fact they turned a profit (as they have for every year but one in the last 20). And who sits on the board of directors at the Conference Board of Canada, none other than Deepak *bleep* Chopra.

For the last two years Chopra has continued to attack mail service across the country. He and the rest of management at Canada Post have cut service to hundreds of thousands of addresses right across the country. The contract to manufacture community mailboxes that replace home mail delivery were given to an American firm. And low and behold the installation of the CMB’s has been a mess. They are regularly poorly installed, placed in improper locales and have been routinely freezing shut in cold weather!

Community groups and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been working tirelessly to fight this insane cut to a valuable public service. The protests, sit-ins, petitioning, canvassing changed the conversation and played a big role in curbing support for the Tories in many areas of the country. Just before the Tories called the election they reappointed Chopra for another five year term, even though his current mandate expired in 2016. When the Liberals took power they asked Chopra and 30 others who the Tories pre-appointed to step down. Chopra refused. A classic scumbag move.

So for being a lying, conniving, snivelling Tory bureaucrat whose goal has been to destroy the power of the union and the effectiveness of a valuable public service, Deepak Chopra is RankandFile.ca’s Scumbag of the year. You can tweet this award to Canada Post @canadapostcorp

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https://www.change.org/p/canada-post-deepak-chopra-resign-from-canada-post?recruiter=890776&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-md-share_petition-reason_msg

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http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/12/16/canada-post-cancels-5-cent-price-increase.html

[Captain Awesome]

Postal workers on the other hand get the "Lazy and whiny *bleep* of the Century" award.

[logicalview]

removed.

[maryjane48]

removed.

[Gone_Fishin]

Scumbag of the year. Seriously? Your union really shows its complete lack of class and professionalism when it comes up with crap that a 16 year old would think twice about publishing. Is it any wonder that union ranks are rapidly shrinking in this country, as workers disassociate themselves from union stupidity? Time for the thugs at the top of the unions to get with the new millennium.

[MAPearce]

Canada Post is a dinosaur... Who gets mail anymore and why should public money fund it ?

Call him a scumbag for retiring a horse in the automotive age ?

[d0nb]

Iraq:

Some 3,500 captured Yazidi women are sold as sex slaves, tortured and repeatedly raped. ISIS later published an official document outlining the rules of proper sex slave etiquette claiming "Question: Is it allowed to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty? Answer: You may have intercourse with a female slave who hasn't reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse."

Iraq:

ISIS rounds up 45 civilians, some thought to be Iraq security forces and their families, and burns them all alive.

North Korea:

Madman Kim Jong Un claims to have a hydrogen bomb, and is ready to use nuclear weapons 'any time.'

California:

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik murder fourteen people and injure 22 others.

Canada:

In a vote by some deep thinkers of the Canadian Left, a bureaucrat at Canada post trounced contenders to be named
'Scumbag of the Year.'

This monster dared to continue a process begun in 1985 to phase out home delivery of mail. This unspeakable act would have forced those still receiving home delivery to join the two-thirds of Canadian addresses already using community mailboxes.

Canada is back.

[GrooveTunes]

Scumbag of the year. Seriously? Your union really shows its complete lack of class and professionalism when it comes up with crap that a 16 year old would think twice about publishing. Is it any wonder that union ranks are rapidly shrinking in this country, as workers disassociate themselves from union stupidity? Time for the thugs at the top of the unions to get with the new millennium.

Rankandfile award, not my union.

[Gone_Fishin]

Iraq:

Some 3,500 captured Yazidi women are sold as sex slaves, tortured and repeatedly raped. ISIS later published an official document outlining the rules of proper sex slave etiquette claiming "Question: Is it allowed to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty? Answer: You may have intercourse with a female slave who hasn't reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse."

Iraq:

ISIS rounds up 45 civilians, some thought to be Iraq security forces and their families, and burns them all alive.

North Korea:

Madman Kim Jong Un claims to have a hydrogen bomb, and is ready to use nuclear weapons 'any time.'

California:

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik murder fourteen people and injure 22 others.

Canada:

In a vote by some deep thinkers of the Canadian Left, a bureaucrat at Canada post trounced contenders to be named
'Scumbag of the Year.'

This monster dared to continue a process begun in 1985 to phase out home delivery of mail. This unspeakable act would have forced those still receiving home delivery to join the two-thirds of Canadian addresses already using community mailboxes.

Canada is back.

^^^ There's some perspective for ya! Thanks for that. It certainly shows how out-of-touch these unions are with the human condition...they think "suffering" is having to walk the dog down the block a couple of days a week to the mailbox.

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Canada Post is a dinosaur... Who gets mail anymore and why should public money fund it ?

Call him a scumbag for retiring a horse in the automotive age ?

Public money doesn't fund CP. Time to come into the new age, MA. Watch for record income and profits again, 20 years out of 21.

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This unspeakable act would have forced those still receiving home delivery to join the two-thirds of Canadian addresses already using community mailboxes.

Except that's a Harper CON lie.

[Gone_Fishin]

Rankandfile award, not my union.

Supported by your postal worker union dues. We know who "voted" for Mr Chopra.

[Bsuds]

Canada Post is a dinosaur... Who gets mail anymore and why should public money fund it ?

Call him a scumbag for retiring a horse in the automotive age ?

I get lots of mail with the stuff I order online from China. What would all the Postal services around the world do with mail addressed to Canada? Throw it it in the garbage! It's more of a parcel delivery service and that's what keeps them going now.