Twenty-one reasons to join
One household has little bargaining power. A membership of many households has a great deal. Here is what that strength does for a life lived between Canada and somewhere else.
Twenty-one reasons
A credit history from your first month.
A record built in Lagos, Manila or Lyon does not cross the border. We arrange the accounts, the first card and the rent reporting that start a Canadian one.
The profession you trained for.
We guide you through assessment and licensing, province by province, so that the years you spent qualifying count here as well.
The first 90 days, in the right order.
SIN, bank, phone, health card, school, licence, winter, tax return: one list, in the sequence that saves the most time.
Flights home on the routes you actually fly.
Toronto to Manila, Montréal to Casablanca, Vancouver to Delhi. We negotiate for the journeys that matter to families, in the seasons they travel.
More of what you send arrives.
We select regulated transfer providers for clear fees and fair exchange rates, and negotiate once for everyone.
Your parents can come, and stay a while.
Visitor medical coverage, including what a super visa requires, and help with the journey itself.
A phone plan on day one.
Mobile and home internet plans that do not depend on a Canadian credit history, with calling to the countries you call most.
The gaps in your provincial plan, filled.
Cover for prescriptions, dental care and eyeglasses varies by province and by age, and some provinces apply a waiting period. Our group programs are there for what the public plan does not pay.
Insurance priced for a group, not for a stranger.
We negotiate with licensed insurers as one membership, so that a short Canadian history counts for less.
Two official languages, and both are yours.
We serve members in English and in French, and we arrange courses in the one your workplace needs.
Thirteen sets of rules, one membership.
Move from Ontario to Alberta and your health card, your licence and your tenant rights all change. Your membership does not.
Ready for your first January.
Boots, coats, winter tires and a plain guide to the cold. Nobody regrets being ready for it.
We never ask about your status.
Permanent resident, citizen, student, worker or visitor: you join with a name and an e-mail address, and that is all.
Your children are included.
Everyone under 18 is covered by a parent’s membership, with tutoring, heritage-language classes and camps among the family programs.
It goes abroad with you.
In the United States, Britain, Hong Kong or the Gulf, your card is recognized by every house of the family.
And it brings you home again.
Provincial health cover, banking, credit and housing: a clear way back for Canadians who return after years away.
You know the scams before they call.
Scam Watch names the frauds aimed at newcomers, from the false tax-agency call to the apartment that does not exist.
Your association grows stronger with you.
Hometown, cultural, faith and student associations join free, keep their independence, and gain a seat in a Canadian network.
No family faces a death far from home alone.
We arrange repatriation or a dignified burial through licensed providers, and member associations stand together beside the family.
Help in the hardest weeks.
The TAS Foundation supports members through hardship, family emergencies and the milestones of a life.
Membership is free.
One membership per adult; children under 18 are included on a parent’s membership. There is nothing more to it than that.
Ten reasons for community leaders
You already carry your community. These are ten reasons to carry it in company.
Your association joins free.
Associations join at no cost. That is the offer, and it is the whole of it.
You keep your name.
Your name, your treasury, your elected leaders and your independence remain entirely your own.
Twelve areas of benefit for every member you serve.
What you could never negotiate for two hundred families, a national membership negotiates for all of them.
A seat in a network from coast to coast to coast.
From St. John’s to Victoria and north to Iqaluit, your association sits beside others that have solved the problems you face.
The Mutual Aid Compact.
When a member dies far from home, member associations stand together, so that no community passes the hat alone. The Compact is mutual aid, not insurance, and creates no right to payment.
A voice that carries.
One association speaks for its members. The network speaks for communities across Canada when providers decide what to offer and to whom.
Help for your newest arrivals.
The first-90-days checklist, the guides and Scam Watch answer the questions your volunteers answer every week.
Visibility in your city.
Members who are looking for a community are introduced to yours.
Bilingual by design.
Everything we provide for your members comes in English and in French, as a Canadian institution should.
An honour for your most experienced members.
Your elders, professionals and organizers are invited to serve as ambassadors, interpreters and mentors well beyond your own hall.
Wherever you began, you belong here.
Membership is free. One membership per adult; children under 18 are included on a parent’s membership.