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Travel points plague passengers, authorities

The holidays are within the rearview mirror for many Canadians, however many cannot overlook how their journey plans had been disrupted by delays and cancellations at airports and prepare stations. Just over three years after a passenger invoice of rights was launched, travellers say they’re nonetheless not getting accountability from airways — and Via Rail passengers are nonetheless searching for solutions after being stranded on trains for greater than 18 hours.

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra joins The House to debate what the federal government is doing to make sure the trade and VIA Rail, a Crown company, deal with shoppers pretty.

Three years later, the households of Flight PS752 victims nonetheless search justice

This weekend marks three years because the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a business airplane, killing all 176 individuals on board. The households of the victims — who included 55 Canadian residents and 30 everlasting residents — are nonetheless searching for solutions and accountability.

Hamed Esmaeilion, who misplaced his spouse and daughter within the tragedy, and Kaveh Shahrooz, a lawyer appearing as a guide to the households, be a part of host Catherine Cullen to replicate on how their lives have modified and whether or not the households will ever see justice.

What it means for Canada if the brand new U.S. Congress cannot get something completed

Dysfunction has been centre stage this week in Washington, D.C, because the House of Representatives endured spherical after spherical of failed makes an attempt to elect a speaker. Canadian diplomats are watching this example unfold simply as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico subsequent week for the North American Leaders’ Summit. 

Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, joins host Catherine Cullen to debate the considerations this new Congress may increase for Canada, and what’s on deck for Canada-U.S. relations within the new 12 months.

Is Canada ‘damaged’? And will that be the subsequent ballot-box query?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has sharpened his critique of the federal authorities, arguing {that a} mixture of issues involving passports, journey chaos, shortages of kids’s drugs and an overwhelmed health-care system are main Canadians to really feel like “everything is broken.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded, however are Canadians receptive to the query — and the controversy? And what are the political dangers for all sides?

The House hears from two strategists: Dan Arnold, who labored as a pollster for the Trudeau Liberals and is now the chief technique officer at Pollara Insight; and Dennis Matthews, who led advertising and promoting for former prime minister Stephen Harper and is now president of Creative Currency.