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Ed Hore comments on the jet proposal to Planning and Housing Committee, City Hall, June 11, 2026

City Staff submitted a report dated May 28, 2026 to the Planning and Housing Committee saying the latest jet proposal has huge implications for planning and housing in the fastest-growing areas of Toronto, yet the City has been given almost no information.

Ed Hore, Chair of WFA, commented at the June 11 Committee meeting that the Toronto Port Authorities' jet proposal is amateurish and vague, yet we know from TPA's long-secret Environmental Assessment of the 2013 - 2015 jets proposal that the effects on the waterfront will be huge. Toronto Port Authority never submitted detailed plans of that proposal to the regulator.  Everyone had to guess at the effects for two and a half years. The federal government eventually realized the proposal was nonsense, and quashed it in 2015.

This time, the City should be the adult in the room; it must keep trying to determine the impacts of jets on the waterfront and the city. No other level of government seems to think the details matter. 

 

Save the Date for "The Cost of Uncertainty - Jets at Billy Bishop" Speaker Series 24

Save the Date for Speaker Series 24 "The Costs of Uncertainty: BBCA Expansion Proposal" (you know that vague 'plan' for jets at YTZ!)

We are pleased to announce that Ken Greenberg will be joining us as a special guest speaker. Ken is an urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, Principal of Greenberg Consultants, and a Member of the Order of Canada.

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Crombie: We Need to Light a Fire!

 

Former "tiny perfect mayor", Conservative Federal Cabinet Minister and principal author of Regeneration, the foundational 1992 report of the Crombie Commission on the future of the Toronto Waterfront, had strong words about the Provincial Government's unilateral move to expand the Island Airport for jets yesterday. "That upends the shared vision that we all gathered around... We need  to light a fire! This is a major issue, no fooling around! ... First of all and by far the most important, the federal government has a clear and legal and political responsibility to deal with the proposal coming forward, they can't fool around with simply: 'we need to talk about it'..."

David spoke at a Zoom meeting of the York Quay Neighbourhood Association (YQNA), a member organization of Waterfront for All" on May 12, 2026. Ed Hore emceed the meeting, and happened to record David's eloquent speech on his cell phone. The clip has now gone viral; it's been viewed thousands of times on social media.