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Carney suggests island airport jets not nixed in perpetuity: ‘forever is a long time’
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CityNews Toronto
TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney is not ruling out ever allowing jets to land at Toronto’s island airport, but he is focused for now on a broader transportation picture, he said Wednesday.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford had pitched a plan to expand Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to allow jets to land, framing it as a way to boost the economy.
It was an idea Carney at one point said was “interesting,” but his government would later nix it.
“Interesting’ has a quite wide range of meanings,” Carney noted at a press conference Wednesday when asked about it.
The results of the consultation were clear, Carney said, but “forever is a long time.”