1) Consistency

Neither Community Air nor the politicians you supported said no to EXPO 2015, despite the (explicitly stated) plans by TEDCO to promote air travel as a way of getting to the fair. Given their projected travel figures, I calculated that travel to the fair would have produced six million short tons of CO2. If you want to make a stand against pollution, you have to make a stand against all of it.

2) Effectiveness

We burn more six times as much fuel in cars than we do in planes, to put it exactly. And driving to Ottawa with an average car and an average passenger load will burn as much fuel, and produce as much greenhouse gas, as putting the same number of people in a Q-400. I've checked and rechecked the numbers on that one.

You want to drop the Gardiner, replace two 401 lanes with high speed train tracks, and bring in a congestion charge, and you'll cut carbon emissions by far more than you would by closing the airport.

3) Equity

That means something that vaguely approximates a fair sharing of environmental burdens between the downtown and the people of Rexdale and Malton. It also means fair access for the people of Iqualuit and Sioux Lookout to the great public medical complexes of Toronto-- which means medical air travel options close to those medical complexes. It means not destroying Green River and Whitevale to build (at a cost of over a billion dollars) a new reliever airport. It means that we, who all benefit from the richness, diversity, education, freedom and wealth that air travel makes possible have a responsibility to share the burdens with some semblance of fairness.