Are you on board with privatizing Pearson airport?
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Are you on board with privatizing Pearson airport?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202624 min

The federal government is looking to lease out opperations at four of Canada's largest airports, including Toronto Pearson. We hear your perspectives and we get insights from guest, John Gradek. He is an aviation management professor at McGill University.

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of the land. The day-to-day operations would be leased out through private investors and pension funds hungry to get a piece of Pearson's $2 billion annual revenues. The whole idea is to bring in private capital so that we're able to build out the airports

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