Government documents suggest Ottawa stalled airline fee meant to fund passenger complaints system | Unpublished
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Publication Date: January 12, 2026 - 04:00

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Government documents suggest Ottawa stalled airline fee meant to fund passenger complaints system

January 12, 2026

Over two and a half years ago, Parliament ordered the Canadian Transportation Agency to create a fee airlines would pay to cover some of the roughly $30-million taxpayer cost to process air passenger complaints. Internal documents obtained by Go Public suggest Transport Canada and transport ministers have been pushing to undermine that fee.



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