We need a new and muscular Canada Post

To help transform Canada Post as a key vehicle to promote a Canadian digital economy, Ottawa could enlist a small group of savvy Canadian digital entrepreneurs to identify opportunities and help propose a restructured corporate organization.

A digital Canada Post could have many opportunities as a Canadian-owned and controlled platform to deliver many services to Canadians, without having to pay Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook or other hyper-scalers, creating new Canadian businesses and applications and creating challenging new jobs here, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Aidan Raynor

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

July 27, 2026

TORONTO—When it comes to digital sovereignty, we need more public “agitation.” We need another nickel moment. It was back in 1915 that a royal commission was appointed in response to intense public “agitation” because ore from nickel deposits in Sudbury were bein...

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