Former Toronto Mayor David Crombie, who headed the Crombie Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront, released an open letter to PM Mark Carney yesterday urging the Federal Government not to support the massive expansion of Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport recently proposed by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, without carefully study.
Ford unilaterally announced recently that the Ontario and Federal governments would expand the airport to accommodate jets, and would proceed without environmental review; Ford said he would expropriate airport lands owned by the City of Toronto to cut it out of the decision-making process.
A unilateral move by the Province like that would undermine generations of work by all three governments on the revitalization of the waterfront, says Crombie. Everything about the expansion proposal should be carefully studied to make sure it doesn’t upset the balance of different uses on the waterfront.
We couldn’t agree more!
Happy 90th birthday, David Crombie!