Those that are involved in the tourism industry are coming together for a Tourism Town Hall in Saskatoon today (Tues) to meet with the Tourism Industry Association of Canada and Destination Canada.
Saskatoon is one of six stops this year for local small and medium business owners to discuss with national tourism partners any issues impacting their businesses.
Tourism in Canada is a $97.4-billion dollar a year industry.
Canada welcomed just under $21-million international visitors last year.
Tourism Townhall in Saskatoon
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306-938-0600
Toll Free Line
800-667-3727
Have Your Say
The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”