Toronto – Vocational groups are warning a shutdown widespread impacts in Air Canada, bringing a new contract on the loom as a stagnation of Saturday work.
Gills Garsan, Chief Executive Officer of Toronto Region Board Board, says that even a brief shutdown will have widespread economic results.
He says that a disruptive work will stop as Canada is working to reboot the economy amid growing trade pressures, which is more than before.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says small businesses have a deep connection with the possibilities of large -scale economic uncertainty.
It says that one -third of the Canadian small businesses depend on the summer tourist season for their revenue and members, “cannot take the risk of losing a single day.”
More than 10,000 flight attendants are ready to get out of the job around ET at 1 pm on Saturday, followed by the lockout by the company if both sides cannot reach the eleventh hour deal.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 15 August 2025.
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