OTTAWA - The federal jobs minister is urging the union representing striking Canada Post workers to respond to the Crown corporation's latest offers.

Patty Hajdu told reporters on the way into the Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday that the two parties have a responsibility to find a way through the labour impasse nearly two years into negotiations.

"They all know the process. The process is that they negotiate until they get to a deal that everybody can live with," she said.

Hajdu did not respond directly to a question about whether the federal government would intervene to end the strike by using Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code as Ottawa did when postal workers walked off the job during last year's holiday season.

"My expectation is that they all see the cards that are on the tab

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