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In Canada the airlines have to advertise total price. They can show a breakdown of taxes and fees, but the main advertised price must be the total price the customer pays.

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As the article states, the issues isn't that customers don't see the fares when searching for prices, but that loyalty programs and some corporate discounts exclude fees. So this practice gouges them.

Corporate travel managers aren't naive about this stuff. They know what they're getting when they negotiate a discount for employee travel.

And that's no different in Canada. I remember having to pay over $800 in surcharge and fees for redeeming a round trip flight via Aeroplan

A good policy probably, but getting "a breakdown of taxes and fees" is easy in US as well. That is assuming you accept the definition of a breakdown as:

Fees: X Taxes: Y

And that's it. So it doesn't seem that policy would help much regarding the point of this article.

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