Only Mark Carney and Doug Ford know if there was actually a deal between them to each support a major transportation infrastructure project that the other had championed. It is simply alarming that the two leaders would agree to some kind of quid pro quo on infrastructure projects of this scale without any, you know, facts. What is the point of the shiny new Major Projects Office if an airport expansion can simply be traded for a train line? And yet, until Tuesday, Ford's caucus, even the rural members, had been quiet as church mice on the rail plan. Would an expanded island airport really drive economic growth, or just move flights from one Toronto airport to another?