A prominent Liberal in the Justin Trudeau government says he wants to hear from Sunwing and VIA Rail about the travel chaos that many Canadians endured over the holidays. MP Peter Schiefke, the Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil-Soulanges in Quebec and chair of the federal government’s transportation and infrastructure committee, tweeted on Tuesday that both companies need to be held accountable for a disastrous holiday season. Sunwing cancelled flights between Canada and Mexico a couple days before Christmas, leaving hundreds of Canadians stranded during the holidays. Passengers on a VIA Rail train headed from Ottawa to Toronto were forced to Read more
Pierre Poilievre
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadian airlines are “breaking their word” with the public and that the Trudeau government isn’t doing enough to help Canadian travellers left stranded at airports across the country. Speaking with journalists in Ottawa on Friday, Poilievre laid the blame for the chaos endured by thousands of Canadian passengers over the last week at the foot of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, arguing airports and airlines are federally regulated and therefore a responsibility of the federal government, Global News reports. “This is a federal problem,” Poilievre said. The lead-up to Christmas was a disaster for many Canadian Read more
Opposition MPs joined forces on Wednesday to pass a motion calling for an audit into the federal government’s border application ArriveCan. CTV News reports that the motion, which passed 174 to 149, with the backing of Conservative, Bloc Quebecois, and NDP MPs, calls on the Auditor General of Canada to “conduct a performance audit, including the payments, contracts and sub-contracts for all aspects of the ArriveCan app, and to prioritize this investigation.” Federal politicians have been in a tizzy since news leaked out that Ottawa had spent $54 million on the app, which required Canadians and visitors to report their Read more
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre says that, if elected Prime Minister, his government would approve a runway expansion at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island airport, which would allow jets to fly in and out of the downtown. Poilievre said allowing jets at YTZ would increase competition in the aviation sector and provide passengers with an alternative to Toronto Pearson Airport, which has had a chaotic summer filled with crowds and cancellations. “Travel at Pearson is a mess right now,” he said. “There could have been way more flights out of Billy Bishop airport in downtown Toronto, meaning more competition and more Read more
