(June 20-2008)—Today the Travel Protection Initiative, a coalition of Canada’s travel industry and consumer groups, responded to federal Transport minister’s Lawrence Cannon’s submission this week to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities that he would not bring into effect the provision of Bill C-11 passed in June of ...
(PIAC – 19/03/08)—In the wake of CBC’s Feb. 27 Marketplace show, the Travel Protection Initiative (TPI) – a coalition of Canada’s consumer organizations and the travel industry – is demanding the federal government take action against Canadian airlines continuously misleading consumers by advertising artificially low fares. Marketplace revealed that Canadian customers were being ...
PIAC and Option consommateurs call for end to misleading airline advertising. EMBARGOED to Monday 8 December 2003 at 10:30 a.m. MEDIA RELEASE MISLEADING AIRLINE ADVERTISING Contact: John Lawford, PIAC (613) 562-4002×25 jlawford@piac.ca OTTAWA, December 8, 2003: The Public Interest Advocacy Centre, supported by Transport 2000 Canada, today joined in a call by Option consommateurs ...
Text of Press Conference in French PRESS CONFERENCE Date: Monday, 8 December 2003 Place: Option consommateurs – 2120, rue Sherbrooke Est, bureau 604, Montreal, Quebec Time: 10:30 a.m. Subject: Airline Advertising – Don't Believe Everything You Read Every day, in newspapers across the country, airlines advertise flights at attractive and competitive prices. And every day, ...