Ford wasn't to complain about the swath of destruction Carney's Alto high-speed rail project would cut through rural Ontario. That all blew up Friday when the federal government refused to support the airport plan. According to the government, 87 per cent of those respondents were against the airport expansion. Carney's decision not to support the airport expansion is out of keeping with his general enthusiasm for megaprojects, but it's a result of simple political arithmetic. It wouldn't be hard for Ford to conduct his own public consultation on Alto, just as the Carney government did on the airport plan.