LILLEY: Carney and Co. can't afford to wing it on airport privatization |
The Carney government is quietly moving forward on plans to privatize some of Canada’s biggest airports. Four, possibly five airports are said to be on the list as the government looks to explore possibilities with global financial partners.
The airports up for possible privatization include Toronto Pearson, Trudeau in Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary, along with the possibility of the Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto’s waterfront. So far, it doesn’t appear that Edmonton or Ottawa, the fifth and sixth-busiest airports in Canada, are on the list under consideration.
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Sources in Ottawa indicate the government could go to the financial markets with a Request for Information (RFI) within days. Issuing an RFI would set in motion a formal process where the government could gauge interest and find out about the capabilities of potential partners.
Carney is clearly looking to privatize
The government has not said straight up that it is set to privatize these massive pieces of infrastructure, but neither has Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed the........