Destination Canada is the $142-million-a-year agency responsible for marketing Canada to the world. Yet Mark Carney’s government appears poised to appoint Jagmeet Singh, a man with no meaningful tourism or marketing experience, to lead it.

CTV broke the news on Wednesday with industry insiders blasting the appointment.

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“This is an insult both to the industry and to the organization itself,” one industry insider told CTV. “This is not a roving diplomatic appointment. This is a marketing organization that is responsible for $1 billion worth of economic activity in Canada.”

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A big job with big economic stakes

Tourism is a massive industry. International visitors spend more than $30 billion annually in Canada and the sector accounts for close to 2% of GDP. Which raises an obvious........

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