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Canada will introduce new legislation this spring that will address the problem of travellers being bumped from flights.

Yesterday’s announcement came during a social media frenzy over a man being dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago because he refused to be bumped.

The man is seen in a video screaming as passengers question why he is being treated like that.

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A spokesman for Transport Minister Marc Garneau says bumping rules will be included in an air passenger bill of rights that was promised last fall.

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It is aimed at crafting clear, minimum requirements for compensation when flights are oversold or luggage lost.

Marc Roy declined, however, to say if the legislation would set industry-wide standards or raise compensation to levels offered in the United States or Europe.

A WestJet flight and an Air Canada flight cross paths on a runway at Toronto\’s Lester B. Pearson airport as photographed from an airplane on Aug. 28, 2012. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

Garneau would not comment directly on the incident aboard a United Airlines flight Sunday.

Passenger rights advocate Gabor Lukacs said the “troubling” video highlights the need for greater consumer protection.

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