From passport pandemonium to air travel anarchy, a look at Canada\u0027s dysfunctional government services
request for tender, looking for suppliers to provide 801 chairs to a Montreal passport office, so more people standing in line will be able to sit.Interpreters have been some of the more discreet essential workers during the pandemic, tirelessly translating the words of elected officials in both official languages during virtual press conferences, committee meetings and parliamentary proceedings. Much of it over Zoom.
But those concerns have only started to be taken seriously in past months when a lack of interpreters forced parliamentary committees to cancel their meetings and slow down their work, obstructing the ability of Parliament to do its job.Article content “I’m terribly upset. It’s devastating for my membership. It’s devastating to the fact that their quality of life has suffered and some people have left the profession as a result of it,” said CAPE president Greg Phillips.
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau announced his airline would be cancelling flights this summer just as the busy summer season heats up. The government has removed the vaccine requirement for domestic travel and hired more than 1,000 new security screeners, but travellers are still finding themselves waiting in hours-long line-ups or stuck on the tarmac as holdups snowball into more and more backups. Waits for security screening have started to decline but reports of delayed and missing luggage have gotten worse.
“It’s putting a negative light on the idea of travel. And certainly causing people to think twice about getting on an airplane,” she said. “We think that it’s going to take us well into next year before we can get back to where we would have been for domestic travel in 2019.” “A busy day in July, that can equal a week’s worth of revenue in February. So, these are very important especially on the leisure side.”For foreign travellers from countries that Canada doesn’t permit entry from without prior arrangement, getting a visa to visit here has been a tense game of hit and miss. Just as Ottawa started lifting travel restrictions, would-be visa applicants began encountering long, unexplained waits that frustrated their plans to visit Canada.
Karun Chandhok looks on during the Goodwood Festival of Speed at Goodwood, July 2021, in Chichester, England. Chandhok’s visa renewal application to Canada has been ‘in process’ for six months.As of June, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada visa application backlog sits at 1,471,173, with 771,482 of those for temporary residence, or visitor, visas. IRCC spokesperson Nancy Caron pointed to the volume of visa requests as a complication.
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