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Air Canada, WestJet testify right before Committee on Transport as fiscal troubles persist Rouge solutions suspended indefinitely

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AvatarBy Ken Pole | February 5, 2021

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After nearly a year of accelerating operational constraints thanks to COVID-19 – complicated by the now solved complex challenges with their Boeing 737 Max fleets – Air Canada and WestJet designed a concerted pitch Feb. 4 for federal governing administration assist in resolving their mounting economical difficulties.

Testifying prior to the Dwelling of Commons committee, which handles transportation troubles, had been the carriers’ govt relations executives.

Air Canada verified that for the reason that all flights to the Caribbean and Mexico had been suspended Jan. 31 at the government’s ask for, it is “again pausing our Rouge operations effective Feb. 8, as these flights are primarily operated by Rouge.” Galen Burrows Photograph

David Rheault, taking care of director of Authorities Affairs and Local community Relations at Air Canada, and Andy Gibbons, director of Govt Relations

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Liberals ‘open to’ Conservative proposal for distinctive Commons committee on Canada-U.S. relations

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The committee would also investigate what operate the governing administration is undertaking with the U.S. to procure a continuous stream of COVID-19 vaccines.

O’Toole reported Canada and the U.S. want to co-ordinate on vaccines and PPE “to make positive we have obtain, and we’re not blocked by Buy American. To get well our economic climate, to protected our foreseeable future, acquiring that trade accessibility, that chosen marriage with the United States is key.”

Most Opposition day motions are not binding on the govt, even though they can be made use of to develop political strain for action. But MPs can pick to produce committees in just the Household of Commons with a very simple vote.

We’re standing up for hundreds of countless numbers of work opportunities in Canada, family members that rely on trade access with the United States

The contact for a Canada-U.S. exclusive committee has

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O’Toole Phone calls For Generation Of Exclusive Canada-U.S. Relations Committee

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Conservative Chief Erin O’Toole addresses the media in Ottawa on Thursday. O’Toole suggests more desires to be finished to safeguard Canadian staff from U.S. options below President Joe Biden.

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are calling for a unique Household of Commons committee devoted to Canada-U.S. relations.

Conservative Chief Erin O’Toole stated Thursday that Canada’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is connected to the United States, and more requires to be carried out to guard Canadian employees and family members from guidelines of the new administration underneath U.S. President Joe Biden. 

Their motion would see the committee emphasis on the financial partnership among the two nations around the world, and notes, specified the ongoing pandemic, “the want for a severe plan for the financial recovery that acknowledges the integration of the North American economic climate.”

Although the proposed committee would have a wide mandate, the

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Canada’s envoy to China attracts interest of U.S. Senate intelligence committee chair Marco Rubio

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio walks through the Senate subway following a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 12, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Senator Marco Rubio, chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, is drawing notice to an previously chapter in the lifestyle of Dominic Barton, now Canada’s ambassador to China, as the U.S. politician presses giant world-wide consulting organization McKinsey and Co. on its small business ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Social gathering and state-owned enterprises.

Senator Rubio has made use of open up letters to query New York-based mostly McKinsey and Co. on its money marriage with Beijing and to ask no matter if company executives acted from U.S. financial and nationwide safety interests as an adviser to Chinese providers. According to The New York Periods, McKinsey’s clientele in China integrated as a lot of as 22 of the country’s 100

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