Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Arts and Culture
• Consumer Issues
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Fisheries
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• International Relations
• Labour
• Small Business
• Sports
• Taxation and Finance
• Tourism
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• A Tax Incentive Program as it pertains to inbound leisure travel to Canada. This program provides GST relief to volume leisure tour groups and meetings and conventions being held in Canada.
• Advocating for the implementation of a Canadian Travel Incentive Program to encourage domestic travel recovery.
• Expansion of the RRRF funding program for tourism businesses. Monitoring developments and assessing impacts on members.
• TIAC advocates for the reduction and elimination of fees related to air travel including airport rents and CATSA fees paid for by travellers

Policies or Program

• Employment/Immigration – TIAC advocates for a permanent-residency path as a part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an industry focused Municipal Nominee Program Immigration - Modernizing Canada's visitor visa process in order to meet international demand for travel to Canada. These initiatives include reinvestment of visa processing fees into increased capacity, expanding transfer without visa, augmenting the Visa Application Centre ("VAC") network into new priority source markets and utilizing electronic travel authority as an alternative visa stream for lower-risk countries Transportation – TIAC advocates for the reduction and elimination of fees related to air travel including airport rents and CATSA fees paid for by travellers
• Federal Tourism Strategy – supports government initiatives toward industry growth TIAC is seeking a well-funded and balanced national tourism marketing agency and will continue to work with the government to ensure that Canada's marketing efforts in mature and emerging markets are adequately funded, including co-investments with industry, and that campaigns are aligned with industry priorities.
• Modernizing Canada's visitor visa process in order to meet international demand for travel to Canada. These initiatives include reinvestment of visa processing fees into increased capacity, expanding transfer without visa, augmenting the Visa Application Centre ("VAC") network into new priority source markets and utilizing electronic travel authority as an alternative visa stream for lower-risk countries.
• Regulations and policies in regards to marine mammals and waterways Regulations and policies in regards to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
• Seeking changes on EI reform and other policy and support measures during the pandemic. Ensuring access to financial impact measures for its members.
• TIAC advocates for a permanent-residency path as a part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an industry focused Municipal Nominee Program Immigration

Regulation

• TIAC will work to improve Canada's competitiveness of Canada's aviation sector and the important role it serves in economic development and job creation. TIAC supports efforts to expand the number and scope of Canada's air liberalization agreements however Canada's ability to attract international business and leisure travellers is impeded, in part, by the layers of taxes, fees and levies imposed on the traveling public. TIAC is working to reform Canada's aviation cost structure.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
• Bank of Canada
• Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
• Canada Infrastructure Bank
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)
• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor)
• Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• CUSMA Secretariat
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
• Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA)
• Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan)
• Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Safety Canada (PS)
• Rural Economic Development (Minister’s Office)
• Senate of Canada
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Transport Canada (TC)

Address:
116 Lisgar St. Suite 600
Ottawa, ON  K2P 0C2
Canada

Telephone number: 416-806-4094
Web address: https://tiac-aitc.ca

Client representative

Marc Seguin, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs

Parent Company Information

Tourism Industry Association of Canada / L’Association de l’industrie touristique du Canada is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.