Methinks Mr Trump and his new Attorney General know more about Canada and Frank McKenna in particular when he was our man in Washington N'esy Pas?

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Methinks if folks only knew the LIEbrano lawyers Franky Boy McKenna and Melanie Joly as well as I do they would easily understand what a monumental joke this is on us all N'esy Pas?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-tourism-canada-election-1.4900070

Liberals planning national tourism strategy as part of election-year economic pitch

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Scott Norman

Would this "pitch" be classified as a unicorn or a rainbow?

You realize this is just the liberals grasping at straws.

David Amos

@Scott Norman "You realize this is just the liberals grasping at straws."

Methinks if folks knew the lawyers Frank McKenna and Melanie Joly as well as I do then they would easily understand what a monumental joke this is to me N'esy Pas?

Richard Sharp

@Scott Norman

The Lib government is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to grow the middle class. You must have noticed. Most Canadians have.

David Amos

@Richard Sharp Welcome back to the Circus

 
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Dave MacDonald

Come visit Canada and pay our carbon tax ,you'll love it .

David Amos
@Dave MacDonald Methinks many a true word is said in jest Everybody knows I am married to an American woman, the proud Father of 2 Yankees and have a great many friends south of the 49th. The first thing they notice when visiting Canada for the first time is how expensive things are up here. They stay because they are visiting me and our friends. However I know for a fact that many American tourists turn around and go back to Maine when they see the price of groceries, smokes, beer and gas etc because their hard earned vacation dollars can go much farther in the pursuit of happiness south of the 49th That is why so many of us shop down there any chance we get N'esy Pas?

 
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Dave MacDonald

Best way to boost the economy is to build the Energy East pipeline .

David Amos

@Dave MacDonald Methinks they would need lots of luck getting it through The Prime Ministers' home province particularly after that last circus within the NEB N'esy Pas?

 
Anthony Kennedy

We are getting thousands of tourists a day at the Quebec border and they even stay for years. Thanks for that Justin.

Anthony Kennedy

@Anthony Kennedy

To be fair it is thousands per year not day.

Richard Sharp

@Anthony Kennedy

Outright lie. The total for all of 2018 is around 15,000 as of September, country wide, about the same as last year.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4568328/canada-irregular-border-crossings-2018/

Richard Sharp

@Anthony Kennedy

Fast and loose with the truth there, Anthony. The real number is about 20k a YEAR, hardly a crisis:

https://globalnews.ca/news/4568328/canada-irregular-border-crossings-2018/

David Amos

@Richard Sharp "Outright lie."

Yea Right

How many have the liberals told?

Survey Says?

Moira Wilkinson

@David Amos
The G&M is one of what IMO, is one of the few free newspapers in Canada. All others are under the umbrella of post media., and the flagship of thatis the National Post.

William Ben

Justin as our economy changes due to the imposition of stopping carbon based fuels in our society, what alternative industry should we promote - Let’s promote Tourism wow a game changer brilliant, so brilliant. Sigh

Richard Sharp

@Don Luft

Ford is the greatest misinformer of them all.

David Amos

@William Ben "Let’s promote Tourism wow a game changer brilliant, so brilliant. Sigh"

Methinks its just another one of those things that Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger does that peoplekind fail to appreciate N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Richard Sharp "Ford is the greatest misinformer of them all."

Nope

Methinks many Maritimers and Yankees would agree that Billy Clinton's old buddy Frank "Bilderburger" McKenna takes the cake N'esy Pas?

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Dave MacDonald

@Richard Sharp Don't sell yourself short Richard. You are the champ when it comes to that.

Richard Sharp

@Don Luft

Nobody misrepresents carbon taxes like Ford.

David Amos

@Richard Sharp "Nobody misrepresents carbon taxes like Ford."

Methinks thou doth jest too much Everybody knows its Trudeau who wants carbon taxes not Ford N'esy Pas?

 
Charles Beale

Given the difficulties of our neighbour to the South and the attitude of its 'president' towards Canada, every Canadian should think about seeing parts of this great country they have never seen before in 2019.

David Amos

@Charles Beale Methinks Mr Trump and his new Attorney General know more about Canada and Frank McKenna in particular when he was our man in Washington N'esy Pas?

 
Peter Boone

Vacations is something this government actually knows and does well, especially when someone else is paying for it.

David Amos

@Peter Boone YUP Methinks the PM is on a big one right now N'esy Pas?

 
Kathy Altenhofen

Perhaps make it cheaper to fly from Calgary to TO than it is to fly from Calgary to GB.

David Amos

@Kathy Altenhofen How would that help the tourists come to Canada?

 
Michael G. L. Geraldson

They should take a look at how Atlantic Canada does things. We have a vibrant and growing tourism industry here, and many of us depend on it to make a living.

Junkman George

@Michael G. L. Geraldson

Sadly, it's seasonal work, mostly at little better than minimum wage. I *suspect* the only benefit will be the patronage jobs paying big bucks.
Hold onto your hats folks, we have an election coming, take a step back and watch how our money is used to buy our votes.

David Amos

@Junkman George We agree once again

 
Kimmy Smith

This is a good idea. We can attract lots of tourists who don't want to go south of the border. We should also encourage more domestic tourism. We have a beautiful country and every Canadian should get out there and see it.

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Scott Norman

@Kimmy Smith

"We have a beautiful country and every Canadian should get out there and see it."

We can't afford it. Since 2015 the middle class is paying over $2000 more in taxes so that Justin can waste it.

David Amos 

 @Scott Norman "We can't afford it. Since 2015 the middle class is paying over $2000 more in taxes so that Justin can waste it."

Methinks there is not of a Middle Class in left to tax in Fundy since I ran there in 2015 The potash mine closed, we are dealing lots of flooding nearly every time it rains because Irving Clan mowed down our forests, Trump's softwood tariffs have nailed the little guys in the lumber industry but not the Irvings and Trudeau keeps selling out the Dairy Farmers with his Free Trade deals.

Soon there will be only the wealthy few and a bunch of old folks hanging around Tims while the poor folks happy to get minimum wage job lug us coffee and donuts as we yap about greedy liberals and great days gone by.

So much for Trudeau's Sunny Ways EH? At least I warned folks to watch out for their pensions long before Trump causes the stock market to crash N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

"Candidates running in Fundy Royal are appealing to the middle class in the typically Tory-dominant riding, with a focus on jobs"








 
Kathleen Maduro

Liberal marketing strategy promotion funded by the Canadian taxpayer. Ouch!

David Amos

@Kathleen Maduro I second that emotion

 
Ray Thomas

Are people that naïve as to think that an extra $40M a year is going to make a huge difference? May not even cover the costs of the new advisory panel. Anyways, if it doesn't work, the Liberals can blame Harper. My mistake, they already did that.

David Amos

@Ray Thomas YUP

 
David Frank

why cant a multi billion dollar a year industry promote themselves on their own dime?

Keith Newcastle

@David Frank : Because the Liberals will take credit for anything in their desperation for votes. Besides that tourism is normally a provincial matter.

David Amos

@Keith Newcastle True

Stanley Kerr

In 2019 everything will be going up in price in Canada from fuel to airline tickets to household goods because of Trudeaus forced carbon taxes ...Time to tell him to shove his carbon tax and lets show him the exit door in the fall of 2019...This guy has been a disaster for this country...

Richard Sharp

@Stanley Kerr

Funny. The Libs lead the Cons by an astounding TWELVE points and Trudeau is preferred over Scheer as PM by TWO to ONE, according to the latest Nanos poll.

Richard Sharp

HAHAHAHAHA.

I post the latest Nanos polls proving the Trudeau Libs are WAAAY ahead of the Scheer Cons and I get down voted 10 to 1. Ten to 1 against FACTS.

Yoo funny.

Liberals planning national tourism strategy as part of election-year economic pitch

The sector is seen as a reliable job-generator in an age of automation

Karina Roman · CBC News · Posted: Nov 12, 2018 4:00 AM ET

Nicole Freeman of Montreal wears two Canadian flags in her hair while visiting the lighthouse in Peggy's Cove, N.S., on Canada Day, July 1, 2016. The Trudeau government is planning a national tourism strategy as part of its election-year economic message. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)

The federal government is creating an advisory council on tourism to help develop a national strategy in a bid to boost the role of tourism in Canada's economy.

Frank McKenna — ex-premier of New Brunswick, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. and now deputy chairman of TD Bank — is to chair the new council.

He will be joined by McKinsey & Company global managing partner emeritus Dominic Barton, who chairs the government's council on economic growth. McKinsey also won a recent federal contract to study barriers in the tourism industry.

Jerry Dias, president of the general trade union Unifor, joins industry experts, local politicians, former hotel CEOs and tourism business owners on the council.

"There is absolutely no doubt that tourism has the potential to boost the economy based on what many other countries do … There's no doubt it can be a much larger contributor to our economy than it is at present," said McKenna in an interview with CBC News.

In 2017, the tourism industry accounted for 2.06 per cent of the country's GDP. The Liberal government is eyeing tourism for its untapped potential for economic and job growth.

"This is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Many, many countries are investing in their tourism sectors to really grab a piece of the pie," said Mélanie Joly, minister for tourism, official languages and la Francophonie, in an interview with CBC News. "We need to make sure that we're competitive."

Dropped from the Top 10

The Trudeau Liberals see tourism as at the core of their middle-class economic message, according to one senior government source who spoke on background.

Being labour-intensive, tourism is one of the few fast-growing sectors where jobs are not being wiped out by automation. Unlike manufacturing, for example, it's a prime candidate for job growth.
Canada used to be a Top 10 destination for international tourists, but since 2000 has slipped to 17th place.

The Liberals are quick to blame the previous Conservative government for the slide, pointing to its cuts to the budget of Destination Canada, the Crown corporation tasked with promoting Canadian tourism worldwide. In the last federal budget, the Liberals upped Destination Canada's annual budget to $97.8 million from $57.8 million.

In 2017, the country's 150th birthday, Canada saw a record 20.8 million visitors. In just the first eight months of 2018, 14.8 million international tourists came to Canada.

This year is the Canada-China year of tourism — a joint initiative. Visitors from China are coveted by many nations because they're seen as 'high yield' tourists: they stay longer and spend more money.

Last year, Canada saw an increase of 2.7 per cent in the number of tourists from China. There are high hopes that 2018, with its special designation, will see even better numbers.

A tourist steps off the glass-floored walkway of the Glacier SkyWalk near the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park, Alta., on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)

But while Canada's numbers are up, so are the numbers of competing nations. The tourism industry around the world is growing by more than four per cent annually, according to industry statistics. Canada's slice of the pie is not increasing, which is why it has not regained its top 10 spot.

"Canada is doing well. We have one of the best reputations in the world, but we only see about two per cent of the global visits every year so we're not growing as fast as our competitors," said Vince Accardi, director of policy and stakeholder relations for the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC).

An advisory council and the promise of a national strategy are being welcomed by the industry and business leaders. But there's already a general consensus abroad on where some key investments could be made.

Tourism Minister Mélanie Joly announces the creation of a national advisory council on tourism in Niagara Falls, Ont. Nov. 12, 2018. ( Robert Krbavac\CBC)

The president of TIAC went before the House of Commons finance committee at the end of September to argue the government needs to work on better visa processing and marketing, and on solving labour shortages.

Perrin Beatty, president and chairman of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said he's never understood why the sector has been taken for granted.

"We're talking about a sector here that could be bigger than the automotive sector or bigger than agriculture," he said.

"If you were to say what sector could we have where every single community in Canada could benefit, tourism is at the top of the list."

In an election year, any push on tourism is likely to have a political angle. Tourism is a part of both rural and urban Canada, generating revenue in small villages and big cities alike.

Ridings stand to benefit

That means a lot of federal ridings stand to benefit from a change in government policy and funding.
Joly began a cross-country tour Monday to hear from some of the 1.8 million tourism workers the Liberals see as part of their target audience: the middle class "and those working hard to join it."

Joly said she expects the national strategy to include both short-term easy wins as well as long-term goals that will take some coordination with other departments, such as Transport, CBSA,
 Infrastructure and Immigration.

The national strategy is expected to be ready by spring 2019, just months before the next election.

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Karina Roman joined CBC's parliamentary bureau in 2008. She can be reached on email karina.roman@cbc.ca or on Twitter @karinaroman1

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