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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his authorities is dedicated to beefing up the passengers invoice of rights within the wake of journey chaos over the vacations.
“We acknowledge that issues have been very tough over the previous 12 months for travellers and there are even bigger challenges which have come up. For instance, we noticed it over the vacations, ” Mr. Trudeau instructed a information convention in Ottawa on Thursday.
“So I can guarantee you that, sure, we’re taking a look at strengthening and enhancing and to make much more related the protections for travellers below the constitution. So, sure, we’re taking a look at what extra to do.”
The invoice of rights, enacted in 2019, is meant to make clear for travellers what they’ll anticipate by way of service or compensation if their journey preparations be disrupted by occasions inside the management of airways.
Mr. Trudeau’s feedback got here as federal politicians grilled executives of Canadian airways and airports over the vacation journey disruptions, calling the wave of cancelled and delayed flights a “catastrophe” that ruined winter getaway plans and saved households aside at Christmas.
Members of the transport committee referred to as the corporate representatives to the assembly to elucidate why so a lot of their prospects endured lengthy delays, cancellations and misplaced baggage whereas travelling over the Christmas break. A whole lot of Sunwing Airways prospects have been stranded in solar resorts for days with little or no communications from the provider.
“This vacation season was a whole catastrophe for my constituents and Canadians throughout the nation,” stated Calgary member of Parliament George Chahal.
Transportation reporter Eric Atkins experiences on the listening to right here. Mr. Atkins additionally takes a broader take a look at journey points right here.
Particulars on the committee assembly, together with a videolink to observe the proceedings, are right here. The proceedings are set to conclude at at 4:30 pm. ET.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
RADAR SHOWS 2,000 AREAS OF INTEREST AT SASKATCHEWAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL – The Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has found greater than 2,000 areas of curiosity and a toddler’s bone on the web site of one of many longest-running residential faculties within the nation. Story right here.
JAPAN PM OUTLINES AGENDA FOR OTTAWA VISIT – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan says he’ll increase international safety challenges, from the struggle in Ukraine to China’s aggression within the Indo-Pacific, whereas pushing to strengthen commerce and vitality ties in talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday. Story right here.
RULING FAVORS CANADA AND MEXICO IN AUTO DISPUTE WITH U.S. – Arbitration below the USMCA has dominated in favour of Canada and Mexico in a dispute with the US over regional content material guidelines for cars – a ruling that comes as a aid to one in every of this nation’s largest and most crucial manufacturing sectors. Story right here.
PM HEDGES ON POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY MISSION TO HAITI – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hedged Wednesday when requested whether or not Canada was ready to guide a army mission to Haiti and he declined to say whether or not Ottawa has run out of troopers to deploy. Story right here.
CABINET MINISTERS TO LOOK AT GOVERNMENT USE OF CONSULTING FIRM – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has requested two of his cupboard ministers to take a more in-depth take a look at the federal authorities’s rising use of the McKinsey and Firm consulting agency after opposition events referred to as this week for an investigation. Story right here.
ONTARIO OPPOSITION LEADERS SEEK REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT GREENBELT POLICY – All three of Ontario’s opposition leaders have joined collectively to ask the province’s Auditor-Normal to research the Progressive Conservative authorities’s transfer to carve 7,400 acres out of the protected Greenbelt for housing builders. Story right here.
PROFESSOR TO PROBE WHITE SUPREMACY IN ARMED FORCES – The Division of Nationwide Defence has awarded a grant to a College of Alberta professor to conduct a deep dive into the extent of white supremacy within the Canadian Armed Forces. Story right here.
TRIAL DATE SET FOR ACCUSED IN DEATHS OF MUSLIM FAMILY – The trial for Nathanial Veltman, charged with killing a Muslim household in London, Ont., in 2021, will likely be held in Windsor, Ont., beginning in September. The tragedy prompted a debate on Islamophobia and concerted political consideration together with a go to to London, within the aftermath, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and different political leaders. Story right here from CBC.
FEDERAL CABINET RETREAT IN HAMILTON – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is about to carry a three-day cupboard retreat in Hamilton, Ont., later this month. Story right here from World Information.
NO MEDIA QUESTIONS FOR POILIEVRE – Federal Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre will likely be in Winnipeg for numerous occasions on Friday, however won’t take media questions. Story right here from The Winnipeg Free Press.
THIS AND THAT
HOUSE ON A BREAK – The Home of Commons is on a break till Jan. 30.
MINISTERS ON THE ROAD – Worldwide Growth Minister Harjit. Sajjan continues an official go to to Barbados and Jamaica.
WILKINSON TO JAPAN – Within the wake of Thursday’s go to to Ottawa by Japan’s Prime Minister, Pure Sources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and a enterprise delegation representing a number of natural-resources sectors are headed for Japan – particularly Tokyo – on Sunday. The go to runs till Jan. 19 and can see the delegation, together with 4 Indigenous organizations, meet with Japanese enterprise leaders. The minister may also meet with ministerial-level counterparts.
MARLAND TO ACADIA UNIVERSITY – Alex Marland, a political scientist and prolific award-winning creator on politics at Memorial College in St. John’s is taking up a brand new job at Acadia College in Wolfville, N.S. As of July 1, he would be the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Belief and Political Management for Acadia – the Atlantic appointee amongst 5 such positions being created throughout Canada. The announcement is right here. “We’re going to work collectively to coach a brand new technology of political leaders. Politicians, political workers, neighborhood leaders and different public figures are going to be engaged by talking roles and management occasions,” Mr. Marland stated in a press release. “There will likely be new programs and applications. College students will go on area journeys to legislatures. And we’re going to spark new analysis about political management.”
NEW BANK OF CANADA DIRECTORS – Three new administrators have been appointed to the board of the Financial institution of Canada by Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. They’re David Dominy, Ernie Daniels, and Shelley Williams. The board consists of a governor, senior deputy governor and 12 unbiased administrators appointed to three-year phrases.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Ottawa, held non-public conferences, after which met with Kishida Fumio, the visiting Prime Minister of Japan. Mr. Trudeau was then scheduled to take part in an expanded assembly with the Japanese Prime Minister, with Worldwide Commerce Minister Mary Ng, Overseas Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, and Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne attending. The Prime Minister was then scheduled to host a official luncheon with Mr. Fumio adopted by a joint media availability with the prime minister.
LEADERS
Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre was scheduled to attend a celebration fundraiser organized by Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman MP James Bezan held at a non-public residence in Winnipeg. Tickets for the occasion are $1,700.
No schedules launched for different get together leaders.
THE DECIBEL
On Thursday’s version of The Globe and Mail podcast, retailing reporter Susan Krashinsky Robertson talks in regards to the rising demand for meals waste apps from each consumers and grocers. The apps have been touted as a means for folks to attain offers as meals costs rise, whereas slicing again on meals being thrown out by retailers. The Decibel is right here.
OPINION
The Globe and Mail Editorial Board on how Toronto must map out a greater route for transit funding: “Transit advocates are completely proper that slicing service is the precise reverse of what’s wanted to retain riders, draw again former riders and entice new ones. However the true query isn’t about parsing a restricted price range in a very troubled time. It’s determining longer-term options. A key problem is the general stage of funding.”
Lawrence Martin (The Globe and Mail) on how Canada goes to be drawn nearer to the U.S., whether or not we prefer it or not: “A very good signal from the Mexico summit is that the Canada-U.S. relationship has been stabilized. Throughout the Trump administration, through which Canadian attitudes towards People sunk to an all-time low, the Three Amigos get-togethers weren’t even held. At this one, Mr. Biden and Mr. Trudeau reached a deal to restore the Nexus border-crossing system; Mr. Trudeau pledged to buy an American missile system to be donated to Ukraine; and Mr. Biden scheduled, in the end, a go to to Canada. It was a sign amongst many indicators that the course of the bilateral relationship now’s towards higher integration. At this time’s world, as described by Goldy Hyder, head of the Enterprise Council of Canada, requires the North American leaders to consider their politics in self-contained continentwide phrases, somewhat than in discrete particular person international locations.”
Gary Mason (The Globe and Mail) on the query of how a lot Alberta’s politicians actually care about local weather change: “Within the 2019 federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Get together introduced that if elected, the federal government would introduce the ‘Simply Transition Act,’ which might give staff and communities depending on the oil and fuel business the coaching and assist they should thrive within the clear, inexperienced economic system of the longer term. The announcement garnered little consideration on the time. And after the Liberals received re-election, it was principally forgotten. Till now.”
Phillip Lipscy (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on how Japan and Canada should decide to an formidable improve of their relationship: “With Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arriving in Ottawa for his first bilateral go to to Canada on Thursday, it’s time for Canada and Japan to rethink their relationship. Each Mr. Kishida and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are presently overseeing historic shifts to their international locations’ overseas insurance policies. Japan lately unveiled a pivotal nationwide safety technique that decisively breaks the long-standing norm of holding defence expenditures beneath 1 per cent of GDP. In the meantime, Canada has introduced its much-awaited Indo-Pacific Technique, which guarantees a “generational Canadian response” to the rising affect of the area.”
Ratna Omidvar and Julie Miville-Dechêne (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on how Canada can do extra to assist Iran’s imprisoned protesters: “Already, greater than 300 parliamentarians in Germany, France and Austria have agreed to symbolically ‘sponsor’ dying row inmates to attract consideration to their destiny. In Canada, over a dozen parliamentarians have joined the motion up to now. We sponsor a younger instructor from Tehran, Mona Afsami, who was arrested on Oct. 19 and has been accused of collusion towards nationwide safety. The Canadian authorities might additionally take inspiration from different international locations to extend strain on the Iranian regime. Three avenues are doable.”
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