First of all we lose our dominance in the Alaska Cruise Market because of our outrageous fees and taxes we place on our customers for trying to do business with us.
Then we make the decision to close the US Leisure Travel offices of the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC). After all, it is our biggest market! Why not concentrate our efforts on India? Makes perfect sense to me!
We totally offend the United Arab Emirates by our ongoing attempts to give world-wide protection to Air Canada and instead of living up to the concept of OPEN SKIES they now have ensured that any Canadian carrier (commercial or military) are not allowed into UAE skies. (Scares me to think if this is going to have an effect on the operation of Fairmont Hotels in Abu Dhabi and Dubai).
And now, Ottawa is moving towards closing the border! We have a commitment from Washington State and DC to continue to operate a 2nd AMTRAK Train into Vancouver daily. All it costs is $1500 a day to cover the costs of Canadian Border Services to greet the train customers. How short-sighted! These trains brought over 25,ooo visitors in July! They spend over $11 MILLION dollars in our economy! Ottawa spend $1500 a day on Taxi and limo fares for their bureaucrats!
What can they do next?????
