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Canada Post’s board of directors has rejected the Liberal government’s request that post office president Deepak Chopra voluntarily resign.

In a Dec. 10 letter to government House Leader Dominic LeBlanc, Canada Post board chairwoman Sian Matthews asks LeBlanc to “withdraw” his earlier letter on behalf of the prime minister asking Chopra to “voluntarily choose not to serve.”

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LeBlanc wrote to more than two dozen cabinet appointees earlier this week asking them to voluntarily decline early reappointments to new five-year terms they’d received from the former Conservative government in June.

Responsible leaders like Mr. Chopra, who commit to public service in this great country, should be celebrated, and not shamed

The letters, written on behalf of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, say the government is committed to establishing “an open, merit-based appointments system for governor-in-council appointees with greater access to all Canadians.

“I am therefore asking that you consider voluntarily choosing to not serve pursuant to the appointment approved by the previous government,” the letter continues.