Internal documents show Ottawa pushed to delay airline complaint fee — as taxpayers foot $30M for system | CBC News

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  1. LittleSunshyne4 on

    Another way our government actively works against us.
    They are doing everything not to reimburse us. So I don’t expect the Carney government to actually do anything to help us while they are here.

    It’s in the small things that we can see change. Not the big crazy gestures but the small things that affect us on the daily.

    They intervened while the flight attendants striked and now this.

  2. ChristJesusDisciple on

    Pretend to be for Canadians, but do backroom deals that hurt us.

    Its lip service with these guys.

    Anand wasn’t even supposed to be runming but pulled a 180 and won. Freeland had 2 other spots lined up, both outside of canada, and still won. Fraser wanted to spend time with family, came back and still won.

    Its all a charade.

  3. People painting this as a liberal issue is ridiculous. Conservatives voted this down, liberals and NDP were the majority who pushed this through in 2023. Yes one Liberal MP is power tripping, but the conservatives would not have let this bill pass at all.

  4. “Documents show ministry officials also emailed the CTA to express concerns about the proposal, including the fee amount. They argued that setting the fee at $790 would incentivize airlines to payout baseless claims.”

    Won’t someone please think of the airlines profit margins?!?!?

  5. friendly-techie on

    How does it feel to see the same Anita Anand win an election and continue in cabinet, tied at the hip with Carney? What does it tell you about Carney, who pulled Anita Anand, Marc Miller, Sean Fraser – the most incompetent ministers under Trudeau and put them back in cabinet?

    You still want to throw just Trudeau under the bus and not look at Carney’s choices?

  6. Public_Zombie_687 on

    The system should be simple, airlines should be required play certain delays within 4 hours of eligibility, and larger claims within 7 days. Should airline wish to dispute eligibility, the airlines themselves should file requests to not pay.

    Should airlines fail in dispute resolution, or ignored paying out automatically, they should be forced to pay 2-4x original claim.

  7. Timely-Island-7477 on

    Waste of tax payer money. Imagine if taxpayer owed this money to CRA, they would be chasing us like criminals

    Who is bringing the government officials to accountability? Good start would be start prosecuting them.

  8. TangoZuluMike00 on

    Waiting for a claim to be settled from Oct 2024. Still “in queue”. West jet offering less than the expenses of hotel, food and uber etc, in Canadian dollars, not the USD we spent. Claim is set to expire in March, but hasn’t been looked at. It’s a sham. We’ll be forced to accept the dismal amount the day of expiry if we want anything, unless they suddenly start to do their job.

  9. Weird to not see the usual defenders of those responsible for these policies here to carry water for them.

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