Immigration Department and Lester B. Pearson Airport

Canada: The issue has raised concerns that the dispute could adversely affect the mammoth Canada-EU free trade deal, which still has yet to be ratified. Travellers are shown at Terminal 1 at Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto, Ontario. on March 17, 2016, according to Huffington Post Canada. The 28-member bloc says Canada visa violates the spirit of reciprocity, but the Immigration Department disagrees. It is part of an ongoing dispute in which the EU has pushed Canada to lift its requirement on travellers from its member countries, Romania and Bulgaria. Representatives from Canada, the EU, and Bulgaria and Romania have met four times since then — including a session this past Wednesday — but no progress has been made, said one source familiar with the efforts but not authorized to discuss them publicly. Romanian politician pens open letter to Trudeau A Romanian member of the European Parliament raised that possibility in January in an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Immigration Minister John McCallum and International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland. Tuesday deadline raises the possibility of igniting a nasty public spat in a year when Canada and the EU are celebrating 40 years of relations and hoping to finally ratify their landmark free trade deal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.