Against a background of threats and insults of President Trump, Canadians have made a point to show national pride by avoiding cross -border trips to the United States in favor of domestic tourism.
But as many Canadians will tell you, flying in the country is often priceless expensive.
The airline tickets from Toronto to Vancouver can often cost about the same as a ticket to Mexico or Europe, enough to push many potential domestic tourists to international travel. That was one of the reactions that 1500 people shared with the Competition Bureau during a year -long study of the Canadian aviation market, the results of which were issued On Thursday.
Air Canada, the best courier and Westjet Airlines, the next largest, are the largest part of domestic air traffic.
“The level of concentration in the industry means that travelers have a limited choice on many routes and pay higher rates than in a more competitive environment,” said Anthony Durocher, a deputy commissioner at the agency, during a briefing with reporters. “Our analysis clearly shows that extra competition provides important benefits.”
One of those benefits are reductions in rates up to 9 percent when new carriers entered the market, Mr Durocher said, although he noticed that those companies had found little success.
The aviation market study started after the closure of Lynx Air, a discount carrier that had started in 2022. Swoop and Sunwing Airlines, subsidiaries of Westjet, was also recently closed and merged into the parent airline.
Of the 10 recommendations of the agency, a recommendations that seemed to take most of the headlines in Canada a suggestion to give access to domestic routes for companies that are 100 percent foreign property. The companies would still be obliged to use Canadian crews and obey domestic regulations, but the change would encourage competition in a way that was a success in Australia, the report noted.
But critics of the report said that the recommendation of foreign ownership could undermine Canadian jobs.
“Such a scheme would enable foreign airlines to arrange money-generating routes at the expense of less profitable regional connections that bind our country and are the backbone of the Canadian economy,” “ Tim Perry, president of the Canadian part of the Air Line Pilots Association, said in a statement.
But it is unlikely that foreign carriers would be interested in serving the domestic routes most needed to competition that serves places other than the most important cities of the land-so that they are so profitable, said Keldon Bester, the executive director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, a research group formed in 2022.
He said the other recommendations were more realistic. Those include tackling the restrictions that prevent smaller airports from offering international flights, so that the discretion of the Minister of Transport during airlines during airlines during airlines and increasing the performance data of the airlines was reduced by the performance data of the airlines.
“The agency has well -daring work and suggested things that would really shake the market,” said Mr Bester.
But the Canadian government is not obliged to take action on one of the recommendations of the Competition Office, an independent agency that investigates matters such as false advertisements and price fixing and gives advice to the federal authorities during company fuses.
“Protecting companies out of competition does not create national champions,” said Brad Callaghan, an officer in the agency’s policy section, during the newslettering.
The extensive geography of Canada means that residents of national and northern communities depend primarily on air travel for essential needs such as medical agreements or employment.
But because the routes are not competitive enough to attract more carriers, Mr Callaghan said, the government could give priority to lowering competition barriers to ask airlines flying on those routes to work harder not to be replaced by more efficient carriers.
The report comes when the summer trips are collected in Canada.
Summer Solares from Canada to the United States are according to one Analysis by the New York Timesand various American cities – from Myrtle Beach, SC, to Derby Line, vt. – who depend on Canadian tourists falter from their absence.
To give more tourists to travel in Canada, the agency that manages the National Parks of Canada is recently called a new tourist promotion Canada Strong PassOffering free access to national parks and selected museums, a 25 percent discount on camping costs And free or discounted via train tickets.
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Wildervuurevacués from Flin Flon, Manitoba, a city of 5,000 people and various FIRST Nations in the province return home. But non-control forest fires stay on northern parts of the prairies and British Columbia.
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Vjosa Isai is a reporter at the time that is located in Toronto.
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