The politics of Island Airport during election year, Part II
Doug Ford wants to expropriate the island airport, just in time for the mayoral election — but does the province even have the legal right to take it over?
By John LorincFrom where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an expansion plan than a political wedge, inserted directly — and in a highly tactical way — into the emergent mayoral election, which officially kicks off in May. The premier’s team in the past few days leaked Ford’s, um, strategy for the “crown jewel of the waterfront” as well as Nick Kouvalis’ polling research, both of which he... Read more
