You don’t build a stronger Canada by selling it off

The choice is not between doing nothing and privatizing everything. It is between building an economy that serves people, and building one that serves investors.

Airports are precisely the kind of infrastructure where the public interest should come first. Yet, once again, Canadians are being told that the answer is more private capital, writes NDP MP Jenny Kwan. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY NDP MP JENNY KWAN

October 7, 2026

There is something deeply wrong with the idea that the way to build a stronger Canada is to sell off the things Canadians already own. Yet, that is the direction the federal government is taking with Canada’s largest airports.

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