I have a real problem with comments made about the Island Airport. Your Issues section is easily criticized and comments on the ferry costs only point out the fiasco of the bridge cancellation and the millions wasted there. In a previous poll the majority of Torontonians supported the continuation of airport operations! Your comment on the scale of pollution is ridiculous. What about Pearson??

You are not going to produce credible sound measurements to support your noise allegations. In short your criticisms are short on fact but long on exaggeration and emotion.

Any reasonable and fair person would recognize your organization for what it is - a special interest group representing mainly harbour condo owners and privileged island residents. Should I include developers who have a financial interest in redevelopment of the airport land? Hopefully reason will reign again once David Miller is gone.

Ronald Wilson

Editor's Note:  Thanks, Ronald, for your comment.
 You refer to Pearson – unlike Pearson, the Island Airport is jammed into a residential neighbourhood, and conflicts on one of Toronto’s best recreational areas. The noise, and pollution, it generates do directly affect Toronto citizens much more than Pearson.

 Measuring noise? The ICAO (the UN-affiliated entity responsible for civil aviation) has done that for us – its measurements confirm that Porter’s Q400 is, by definition, an aircraft generating excessive noise.  Such aircraft are prohibited from the Island Airport. We look to the Port Authority board of directors to respect their legal obligation to enforce that prohibition.