Airport privatization still on table despite budget snub, warns industry group

Airliners and some airport operators, in addition to opposition parties, have come out against a prospective plan to sell off Canada's busiest airports.

Although it wasn't discussed in last month's budget, the federal government is still weighing privatizing Canada's busiest airports, including Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, pictured, says John McKenna of the Air Transport Association of Canada.Flickr photograph courtesy of Abdallah H

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

April 22, 2017

Selling off Canada’s busiest airports remains on the radar for the Trudeau government despite failing to appear in the 2017 budget, warns the group representing mid-sized and small domestic airliners. John McKenna, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC), said he rece...

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