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The government paid no heed to this particular brand of anguish when, on Thursday, Public Services Minister Judy Foote announced the launch of a formal review of Canada’s postal service. According to Foote, a four-person task force will take the summer to evaluate whether it is prudent to continue with the plan to scrap door-to-door mail delivery — which, amid declining letter mail volumes, is estimated to save Canada Post $500 million a year — or follow through with her party’s promise to restore home mail delivery, simply because they said so in their platform. What’s a little red ink when you’re looking out for the (central, urban, single-family home-dwelling) middle class?

Much of the concern over the elimination of door-to-door mail delivery has been for Canada’s elderly and disabled, who might not be physically able to make their way to a communal mailbox to receive their daily pizza flyers and dry cleaning coupons, as well as the one or two monthly bills they don’t yet receive by email. But where is the concern for Canada’s dairy deprived disabled and elderly, who are forced to choke down shelf-stable soy milk alongside the downtrodden and lactose-intolerant, as the young and able-bodied skip merrily to their grocers?

Sure, we could make accommodations for the few individuals who cannot leave their homes, do not have help from friends or family, could not enlist the services of the many grocery delivery companies out there, or haven’t thought to pay a neighbourhood kid $5 to fetch some milk from the store — but where is the justice in that? No: we owe it to these Canadians not just to restore home-milk delivery to them, but also to bring it back to the select households that once enjoyed it also.