Moya Greene Ceo of Canada Post

The real world says mails volume is increasing. Imagine that. The Internet is increasing communication and increasing mail volume not decreasing it. Profits are continuing to rise and Canada Post is paying record tax and dividends to the government.

Yet in Moya's world, Moya Greene says that dramatic cuts to wages, benefits and services are necessary to offset the dramatic reduction in mail volume she anticipates will happen one day. Whatever. How's not picking up the mail on weekends going to increase business revenue? Our competitors do.

When you are in a service based industry and you slash all your services you decrease your business revenue. That's like owning a restaurant and cutting out the menu. I think she's trying to sabotage the company so she is. Privatizing just to screw the employees and circumvent public accountability is not a good thing.

"Generally speaking, I am a very big proponent of transparency. I think it protects individuals and officers. It protects organizations. It makes things clear and above board. Generally speaking, I am very much in favour of transparency. Full, fair, and plain disclosure are more than mere watchwords for me." Moya Greene

"There is an important point, though, that I think needs to be made ... we may need to be a little cautious so as not to undermine or defeat the commercial aspect of that role." Moya Greene

August 21, 2004 Bombardier's future beyond its control

"The advantage of managers in the private sector is that they know specifically what they are supposed to do, i.e. make a profit, husband resources, minimize opportunity costs, and do better in the marketplace. Managers in the public sector have to deal with the public interest, and therefore are more constrained." Moya Greene

"The private sector is not open to be told anything by the public sector. It sees the public sector as incompetent in the areas of downsizing, implementing new technology, and strategic planning. There is a general belief in the private sector that public sector managers do not know anything." Moya Greene

"The public sector would benefit from more publicity concerning the lower salaries for comparable positions in the public versus private sector. Currently, many young people in their first year of work in the private sector earn more than public service executives. Politicians should be better educated concerning comparable salaries." Moya Greene

Speaking of CN derailments, did ya see the bankers new brainstorm? They are stacking the rail cars on top of each other to make more money. Now that will really help reduce train derailments. Lets see brain surgeons, basic laws of physics - if you raise the centre of gravity of an object as it turns a corner will it be more or less likely to derail?

You're supposed to be trying to decrease the derailments not increase them. That's what happens when you throw away public accountability. You get bankers out of their field who don't give a rat's a*s about anyone else and thinks everyone else is stupid.

This is why TILMA and the SPP are so dangerous. It gives power hungry Corporations absolute power. It gives them the right to sue any government - federal, provincial or municipal for creating any law that would impede their ability to make a profit. That would include protecting the environment.

Let's look at the nature of the Corporation. They are concerned with one thing only - profit. Instead of trying to decrease the number of derailments by doing the proper brake maintenance and not making the trains so much longer, they send in the Wilcox group to spin the truth with propaganda. 'Well, the Americans are doing it" they say.

That makes a lot of sense. Maybe the Americans have straighter tracks, did you ever think about that? This would be fine for the Prairies, but whole problem is the curved tracks in B.C. navigating through the mountains. Longer trains and reduced brake maintenance cause more derailments when cornering. Are the weights of the containers posted on them? What happens when a heavy container is placed on a light container?

This is the irony of greed. The obsession for more and more profits shoots themselves in the foot. When their service becomes unreliable with increased derailments, then customers take their business somewhere else. It's a shame. The railway could help the transportation industry greatly. The company I work for stopped using CN because they were unreliable. If it's not broken, don't fix it. If it's making money, don't change it.

1. Will the government hold a public inquiry into the sell-off of BC Rail as soon as the criminal proceedings conclude so that B.C. taxpayers can finally get the answers they deserve?

2. When did the government first learn that the BC Rail deal was the target of an in-depth RCMP investigation?

3. When will the government release all documents -- including documents which may not be directly linked to the charges -- that relate to government policies or decisions regarding BC Rail?