Toronto Port Authority just confirmed in hearings late today the Billy Bishop airport expansion will cost a massive $4B to $5B. Who is going to pay for it? Is this expansion even economically viable? We also learned the provincial government and the federal government are in secret closed door conversations with the Port Authority over the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and the rest of us are in the dark, including the City of Toronto. Toronto residents don't want this airport expansion, and the people in charge know it. That's why they're not telling us about what's in store for us. They're not telling us about the business case, the increase in pollution, the noise, the health impacts, or the impact on tourism and housing construction.

I’m at the hearings today for the Ontario government’s takeover of Billy Bishop Airport. Minister of Transportation Sarkaria is speaking first: he’s speaking slowly, and is spending a lot of time talking about tolls, highways, drivers, and the tunnel under the 401 (he calls it a revolutionary concept).