After half a century in limbo, the federal authorities says it is going to scrap plans to construct an airport on 1000’s of acres in Pickering, Ont., and as an alternative look to switch the land to Parks Canada.
After half a century in limbo, the federal authorities says it is going to scrap plans to construct an airport on 1000’s of acres in Pickering, Ont., and as an alternative look to switch the land to Parks Canada.
The federal government acquired the land northeast of Toronto for an airport in 1972 however put these plans on maintain three years later in favour of increasing Ontario’s already-built airports.
Up to now decade, the federal government has transferred greater than half the land to Parks Canada for the creation after which the enlargement of Rouge Nationwide City Park.
However Transport Canada was nonetheless hanging on to about 8,700 acres of the land for a possible future airport.
In a information launch at the moment, Transport Minister Anita Anand says the federal government decided {that a} new airport “is just not the most effective use” of the federal Pickering lands.
The federal government says consultations might be held with the general public and Indigenous communities, together with the residential, farm and industrial tenants who’ve since leased the federal lands.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 27, 2025.
Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press
