With the Canada Post strike entering its second week on Thursday, small businesses in Canada want to see the postal service reformed, a new survey shows.

Nearly nine in 10 small businesses (87 per cent) in Canada are calling for changes in the way the Crown corporation is run, a survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) released on Thursday shows.

“Canada needs a national postal service, but not in its current form. We’re glad to see the federal government taking steps to modernize Canada Post services,” said CFIB executive vice-president Corinne Pohlmann in a statement.

“It’s already losing customers and millions of dollars every day. Doing nothing would just sentence Canada Post to extinction,” Pohlmann added.

The report found that more than half (5

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