PolitiKit

Youth workforce proposal and connecting newcomers to hotel careers

Access to CMHC financing for mixed use hotel/housing developments

Fraudulent Hotel Bookings through temporary resident visa applications

Immigration Canada - Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program.

Enhance tourism infrastructure and funding for Destination Canada

Adding anti-Palestinian racism to Canada's Federal anti-racism strategy. Ensuring Canada views settler colonialism as central to our analysis of racism and our anti-racism strategy. Ensuring our anti-racism programming respects political and civil rights of Palestinians, including Charter Rights. Ensuring Canadian policy does not suppress Palestinians right to speak on their experience of structural racism in Israel and Canada.

Advocating for Canada to impose an immediate Arms Embargo on Israel using Canada's Special Economic Measures Act and for Canada to suspend the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement given Israel's violations of international law in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

Improving enforcement of laws made under the authority of the Framework Agreement on First Nations Land Management

Removing barriers and delays in the Additions to Reserve approvals process

Increase the Federal Cash Transfer to provinces for post-secondary education so that institutions are no longer forced to rely on student tuition to balance budgets.

Enforcement of the Canada Health Act principle of “universality” to prohibit the province of British Columbia from charging international students a $75 health fee to access government-insured medical services.

Student housing funding, with respect to federal financial assistance for the construction of high-quality, purpose-built, affordable student housing that considers students' diverse needs.

Public transportation investments, with respect to accelerating the delivery of the Permanent Transit Fund (PTF) to provinces, the construction of the Burrard Inlet Rapid Transit project to North Vancouver, and fully funding the Mayor’s Council Access for Everyone plan.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, with respect to increasing the number of hours an international student is permitted to work off-campus during a regular academic session from 24 to 32, and extending permission to work to part-time international students.

Implementation of the Species at Risk Act

Supporting S-243, An Act to enact the Climate-Aligned Finance Act, that would include enforcing science-based targets and holding financial institutions accountable to them, establishing climate alignment as a superseding duty, and strengthening capital adequacy requirements.

Immigration Canada - Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program.

Youth workforce proposal and connecting newcomers to hotel careers

Enhance tourism infrastructure and funding for Destination Canada

Engage with the Federal Government on proposed new or amended taxation laws with respect to short-term accommodations.

Improving Access for Visitors to and within Canada – TIAC supports the efficient movement of travellers to and within Canada through enhancements to the visitor visa process in order to meet international demand for travel to Canada. TIAC also works to ensure that regulations and policies related to transportation, air travel, waterways and ports of entry are developed and implemented to optimally connect, and not impede, domestic and international travellers to urban and rural destinations, key attractions, sporting events, and business meetings in Canada.

Lobbying to amend the Copyright Modernization Act. Amend the section (old section 21) to limit fair dealing exemption for education.

Operating grant, contributions to projects in technology development, research, marketing, professional development

Youth workforce proposal and connecting newcomers to hotel careers

Engage with the Federal Government on proposed new or amended taxation laws with respect to short-term accommodations.

Fraudulent Hotel Bookings through temporary resident visa applications

Improving monitoring, reporting and verification requirement for oil and gas methane emissions

TIAA is interested in ensuring that any proposed changes to labour and immigration policy support the unique needs of the tourism industry, by sector, by region and, by season.

TIAA aims to see improvements to the visa application process, ensuring that the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) is available to low-risk countries.

Sustainable Tourism within Canada's National Park System - TIAA's interests relate to sustainable investment within national parks, support of Indigenous tourism development, policy and strategic alignment between the ministries of ISED and ECCC in support of the aims of national parks to protect and present these places to Canadians.

TIAA desires to see the cost of air travel become more competitive relative to other global markets by reducing fees, levies and taxes on air travel.

TIAA is interested in the working with the Government of Canada to advance its federal tourism goals, as articulated in the Canada 365: Welcoming the World. Every Day. The Federal Tourism Growth Strategy

TIAA is interested in any changes to transportation policy or regulation that positively/negatively impact Canada's ability to compete on an international level for visitors.