Canadian postal workers suspended
for refusing to deliver mail calling out ‘sex changes’ for minors
Two suspended Canada Post employees were from New Brunswick and had refused to deliver Campaign Life Coalition’s pro-life postcards.
Canada’s top pro-life group is pleased that the nation’s mail carrier followed through to deliver some of its flyers in the wake of two Canada Post employees’ recent suspensions for refusing to deliver materials that called out “sex changes” for minors.
The two suspended Canada Post employees were from New Brunswick and had refused to deliver Campaign Life Coalition’s pro-life postcards. One of the postcards read that “no child is ‘born in the wrong body,’” and another that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”
According to Shannon Aitchison, one of the suspended mail carriers who has a transgender child, she was put on a five-day unpaid leave for not wanting to deliver the postcards. Aitchison said that five postal employees decided not to deliver the postcards, with at least one other being suspended.
Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) had threatened last month to take legal action against Canada Post because of its postal workers’ union claiming that some employees in the New Brunswick area had been given an “option” to not deliver their postcards.
CLC director of political operations Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews that Canada Post has a “legal obligation to deliver our mail, and to not discriminate against us based on our political, religious or moral viewpoint.”
“Our legal counsel made this clear to Canada Post. I am glad that Canada Post, as a federal government agency, is taking seriously its obligation to provide services equally to all Canadians. How it accomplishes that service obligation is up to CP. The government agency simply does not have the right to engage in viewpoint discrimination, which its own legal department made clear,” he said.
According to Canada Post, which is a government-run Crown corporation, CLC’s postcards did not meet the threshold of what is “non-mailable matter.”
The suspended postal worker claimed that CLC’s postcards violated Canada Post’s Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Charter. However, Canada Post spokesperson Valérie Chartrand said that “internal policies cannot supersede our responsibility as the national postal service to deliver items.”
Chartrand added that the postal services “important and longstanding role to deliver the country’s mail should not be seen as tolerance or support for the contents of any mailing,” adding, “We are a neutral third party regardless of our views, with limited regulated exceptions on what can be mailed in Canada.”
As for CLC, Fonseca told LifeSiteNews that its parental rights advocacy campaign is “important to the well-being of New Brunswick children and their parents.”
“When mom and dad are allowed to do the parenting instead of woke teachers, children can be steered away from this poisonous ideology that leads to chemical castration and the surgeon’s knife for many,” he said.
Fonseca noted that despite complaints from some “trans activists and the Liberal media in New Brunswick,” it has “heard from well over 1,000 New Brunswickers who agree with our parental rights message and are extremely grateful for the postcards, including from parents, grandparents, teachers, students and even those who identify as gay.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, LGBT indoctrination targeting kids has been on the rise in Canada and worldwide, which has led to Canadians fighting back in protest.
Some provinces such as Alberta, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan have in recent months proposed legislation that would strengthen parental rights.
The two suspended Canada Post employees were from New Brunswick and had refused to deliver Campaign Life Coalition’s pro-life postcards. One of the postcards read that “no child is ‘born in the wrong body,’” and another that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”
According to Shannon Aitchison, one of the suspended mail carriers who has a transgender child, she was put on a five-day unpaid leave for not wanting to deliver the postcards. Aitchison said that five postal employees decided not to deliver the postcards, with at least one other being suspended.
Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) had threatened last month to take legal action against Canada Post because of its postal workers’ union claiming that some employees in the New Brunswick area had been given an “option” to not deliver their postcards.
CLC director of political operations Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews that Canada Post has a “legal obligation to deliver our mail, and to not discriminate against us based on our political, religious or moral viewpoint.”
“Our legal counsel made this clear to Canada Post. I am glad that Canada Post, as a federal government agency, is taking seriously its obligation to provide services equally to all Canadians. How it accomplishes that service obligation is up to CP. The government agency simply does not have the right to engage in viewpoint discrimination, which its own legal department made clear,” he said.
According to Canada Post, which is a government-run Crown corporation, CLC’s postcards did not meet the threshold of what is “non-mailable matter.”
The suspended postal worker claimed that CLC’s postcards violated Canada Post’s Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Charter. However, Canada Post spokesperson Valérie Chartrand said that “internal policies cannot supersede our responsibility as the national postal service to deliver items.”
Chartrand added that the postal services “important and longstanding role to deliver the country’s mail should not be seen as tolerance or support for the contents of any mailing,” adding, “We are a neutral third party regardless of our views, with limited regulated exceptions on what can be mailed in Canada.”
As for CLC, Fonseca told LifeSiteNews that its parental rights advocacy campaign is “important to the well-being of New Brunswick children and their parents.”
“When mom and dad are allowed to do the parenting instead of woke teachers, children can be steered away from this poisonous ideology that leads to chemical castration and the surgeon’s knife for many,” he said.
Fonseca noted that despite complaints from some “trans activists and the Liberal media in New Brunswick,” it has “heard from well over 1,000 New Brunswickers who agree with our parental rights message and are extremely grateful for the postcards, including from parents, grandparents, teachers, students and even those who identify as gay.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, LGBT indoctrination targeting kids has been on the rise in Canada and worldwide, which has led to Canadians fighting back in protest.
Some provinces such as Alberta, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan have in recent months proposed legislation that would strengthen parental rights.