{"id":187063,"date":"2025-10-03T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187063\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:57:09","slug":"canada-should-allow-south-american-tourists-to-use-u-s-visas-former-cabinet-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187063\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada should allow South American tourists to use U.S. visas, former cabinet minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Chr\u00e9tien-era cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal says that anyone with a U.S. visa has already been vetted for security reasons and wouldn’t pose a threat to Canada.Fred Lum\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

Canada could encourage more high-end tourism by allowing South Americans to use U.S. visas to enter the country, says a former Chr\u00e9tien-era cabinet minister.<\/p>\n

Herb Dhaliwal told The Globe and Mail Thursday that he made the proposal to the office of Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and the idea is under consideration. Mr. Dhaliwal held several cabinet posts under former prime minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien, including natural resources, fisheries and revenue. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 10 per cent of people in South America who are wealthy and well-connected. They go back and forth to Europe and the United States. They have got money but they don\u2019t want to go through the hassle of getting another visa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Canadians made three million fewer trips to the U.S. during summer travel boycott<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of these people already have U.S. visas but they don\u2019t want to travel to the United States because of the policies of President Donald Trump<\/a>, he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dhaliwal noted that anyone with a U.S. visa has already been vetted for security reasons, and they would not pose a threat to Canada. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think there would be lots of tourists because they want to come to Canada. This is a very easy solution to attract the upper crust from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and other South American countries. It would also help us build a stronger relationship with South America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dhaliwal said he is among many Canadians who are boycotting travel to the United States even though his daughter and three grandchildren live in California. <\/p>\n

Canadians with U.S. permanent residency risk losing status, new advisory from Ottawa warns<\/a><\/p>\n

A successful B.C. business executive, Mr. Dhaliwal said the Canadian economy is in serious trouble because of the Trump tariffs and he applauded Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s<\/a> determination to get major infrastructure and energy projects under way.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dhaliwal said he supports Alberta Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s proposal for a second oil pipeline through British Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project is opposed by British Columbia Premier David Eby who said it would require an overturn of the ban on oil tankers off the West coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow with what happened with Trump we have to build pipelines to get our oil and gas to the rest of the world. We have no choice. Otherwise we will be in big trouble with our economy,\u201d Mr. Dhaliwal said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Former Chr\u00e9tien-era cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal says that anyone with a U.S. visa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-187063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}