Plan for Pickering airport dead after more than 50 years of debate, says Ottawa
After more than a half century in limbo, the federal government has abandoned plans for an airport at a site in Pickering, Ont., and will instead look to transfer land to Parks Canada.
Transport Minister Anita Anand said a new airport was not the best use of the area northeast of Toronto and the government intends to transfer the “high conservation value lands” to the agency that manages national parklands.
“We will soon begin public consultations to determine future uses, taking into account the region’s greatest needs,” she said in a statement Monday.
A battle over the future of the land in Pickering has brewed since at least 1972 when Pierre Trudeau’s government expropriated about 18,600 acres for a possible airport site. The move sparked protest, and the government put the plans on hold three years later in favour of expanding the province’s already-built airports.
City council and opposing advocacy groups have since wrestled over how the land should be used. Part of the land overlaps with Ontario’s protected greenbelt area, and a conservation group has advocated for what’s still held by the government to be added to the Rouge National Urban Park.
In the past decade, the government has transferred more than half the land to Parks Canada for the creation and then the expansion of the park.
But Transport Canada held on to about 8,700 acres of the land for a potential future airport. The government says properties have since been leased to residential, farm and commercial tenants.
Consultations will be held with the public, Indigenous communities and the tenants in the “coming weeks” to determine future use of the lands, the government said.
Pickering city council voted in 2023 to officially withdraw its support for the airport plan. It cited a Transport Canada-commissioned report that concluded southern Ontario would not need a new airport before 2036.
The only vote against the motion was cast by Mayor Kevin Ashe, who suggested the airport would be a major economic driver to help support the city’s projected population boom.
The mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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