West Island Assistance Fund pushing Canada Post to sell vacant building [Video]

The West Island Assistance Fund (WIAF) thought it had found the perfect solution.

After a major fire in 2019 wiped out over half of its space in Roxboro, it’s been looking for a new home for its food bank and to keep with growing demands. When a Canada Post distribution center closed last year on the very same street as the WIAF the head of the charity’s board of directors thought it would be the perfect place to move.

“It’s about 8000ft² on the ground floor,” Micheal Labelle told CTV. “It’s got high ceilings, it’s got garage doors and a loading dock. It’s a facility that we can move in right away and make use of.”

The problem is Canada Post isn’t giving the facility up.

“When properties are no longer required for our operations, we follow a fair and open process to receive fair market value as part of …