Registered Canadian political party, The Sex party is suing Canada Post for refusal of delivery service. The Sex Party, a registered political party in British Columbia is seeking federal registration distributed, according to the party, a tasteful, artistic and informative leaflet to voters in the federal contest.
Canada Post unfortunately did not view the material as tasteful or informative. Canada Post has said that it was simply following regulation; they are not to deliver unaddressed mail that contains any type of sexual content.
The Sex Party like many political parties uses mailers as a medium to deliver their message to the masses. Other options are television commercials, but they can be extremely expensive.
The post office’s unaddressed mail program reaches almost every household in the nation, with an audience equivalent to that of the entire radio, or television or newspaper industry. But unlike those media in which advertisers have a wide range of choice, Canada Post has an almost total monopoly over unaddressed mail.It has exclusive access to over five million letter boxes in the nation. No other government agency so dominates a medium of such political importance.
Canada Post regulations give postal officials unfettered power to accept or reject any material as unaddressed admail. If for any reason postal executives wanted to prohibit delivery of a pamphlet of the Conservative Party or NDP, they have the power to do so.
The Sex Party will argue that Canada Post’s censorship of legitimate political expression creates significant social harm in (a) beaching the duty of political impartiality which Canadians expect of their government institutions, (b) interfering with political expression which is vital to a democracy and (c) violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
by Pimp Cafe Staff

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