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Adam Pankratz: Mark Carney's worthwhile plan for privatizing airports

Airline passengers will be better off with the profit motive applied to airport operations

Mark Carney’s investment summit is a sign that perhaps, finally, after a decade of missed opportunities, our government understands that we have to get serious about our lack of productivity, per capita GDP growth and business investment. Among the Prime Minister’s remarks on Tuesday, we learned that the Liberals plan to privatize the operations of Canada’s four largest airports; operations at Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver all up for grabs. With any luck, privatizing Canadian airports is a harbinger of further privatization efforts and efficiency in more areas of Canadian life.

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Not everyone is happy. Unions oppose the plan almost unanimously, with Unifor releasing a strongly worded statement. In the letter Unifor National President Lana Payne said “Airport workers know from experience that privatization comes at a cost to them and the travelling public and creates worse working........

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