WestJet plane at the Lethbridge Airport. (Lethbridge News Now)

By David Opinko

312,000 Canadians write to Parliament demanding safe travel & tourism plans

Sep 14, 2020 | 11:04 AM

OTTAWA, ONT – Canadians are looking to the federal government to create guidelines to allow for the safe returns of travel and tourism.

Over the past few weeks, the National Airlines Council of Canada asked residents to write to their local MPs, resulting in 312,000 personal messages to the federal government.

The responses came from every province and territory with 53 per cent of the emails coming from those who live in ridings held by the governing Liberal party.

“The Prime Minister and his cabinet must take urgent action to support the thousands of business and employees across the country, in communities large and small, that depend on travel and tourism,” says Mike McNaney, President and CEO of the National Airlines Council of Canada.

“We can safely restart our industry and take steps to ensure its financial viability through sectoral support, but the federal government must act now.”

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The council is specifically asking for these plans to include a national framework to ease inter-provincial travel restrictions, communicate to Canadians that they can safely travel by air domestically, and establish reciprocal border agreements with targeted safe countries.