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Interim chair appointed to Canada Post Corporation

May 7, 2007

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced the appointment of Mr. Donald Woodley as interim chair of the Canada Post Corporation board of directors for a period of 90 days.

"I am very pleased that Mr. Woodley has agreed to serve as interim Chair on the board of Canada Post," said Minister Cannon. "He joined the board of directors in August 2006 and within this timeframe has made a significant contribution to the Corporation."

Mr. Donald Woodley is currently a member of the board of directors of Gennum Corporation as well as president of The Fifth Line Enterprise. Mr. Woodley has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, management and information technology, and was ranked 15th in the "Top 30 Canada's IT Movers and Shakers" in Computing Canada Magazine in 2005. He holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a masters degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario (Richard Ivey School of Business). Mr. Woodley is a current board member of TELUS Corporation Inc., DataMirror Corporation, Sick Kids Hospital Foundation and Richard Ivey School of Business.

Mr. Woodley replaces Gordon Feeney who resigned of his own accord on April 26, 2007. He was appointed to the position on September 30, 2004, for a term of three years.

"I would like to thank Mr. Feeney for his personal commitment in recent years in leading Canada's largest Crown corporation," added Minister Cannon.

Canada Post Corporation is a Crown corporation and the seventh largest employer in Canada. It serves approximately 31 million Canadians and more than one million businesses and public institutions. Each working day, it delivers approximately 37 million pieces of mail to more than 13 million addresses in Canada.