Canada Post is vowing to maintain free-postage service for people who are blind even as Ottawa’s budget bill looks to repeal those parts of the postal service’s legislation.

Bill C-15, the federal budget implementation act, contains a proposal to allow Canada Post to set its own postage rates. Right now, the Crown corporation has to seek Ottawa’s approval to change the price of a stamp.

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But alongside those changes is the repeal of certain sections of the Canada Post Corporation Act. Specifically, the bill removes clauses that allow Canadians and organizations to se

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