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The Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation is a member of the Canadian Cabinet responsible for Canada Post Corporation, the federal Crown corporation responsible for Canada's postal service. The position was created in 1981 assuming some of the responsibilities previously exercised by the Postmaster General of Canada.
A streetcar used by Royal Mail Canada in Ottawa, c. 1890s It was in 1867 that the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service) headed by a Cabinet minister, the Postmaster General of Canada.
Where no independent postal regulator has been established, these tasks may be undertaken by the government or the operator(s). They may be carried out by a single entity or spread out amongst multiple government, quasi-government or private entities. [1] The designated postal operator of that country (normally the public postal service ...
To provide advice, guidance and services to help ensure the protection of electronic information and of information infrastructures of importance to the Government of Canada. To provide technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies in the performance of their lawful duties.
In Canada, state-owned corporations are referred to as Crown corporations, indicating that an organization is established by law, owned by the sovereign (either in right of Canada or a province), and overseen by parliament and cabinet. Examples of federal Crown corporations include: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Canada Post; Bank of Canada
In North America, instead of a PTT there was the private monopoly Bell System (for the US)/Bell Canada (dominant ILEC in Ontario, Quebec and (historically) parts of what is now Nunavut; competes with other fixed-line carriers in the rest of Canada) responsible for telecommunications and a separate federally run US Postal Service/Canada Post for mail delivery.
Public services in Canada are delivered by various levels of government, determined through responsibility enacted in the Constitution. Financing for those services is provided through tax receipts, sales revenues, user fees, and other government revenue sources.
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC; French: Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada), [NB 1] formerly Public Works and Government Services Canada, is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for the government's internal servicing and administration.