Mr. Wilson:

1) I see no connection between New York's not building an airport in Central Park and the question of environmental equity in the distribution of traffic between two existing airports in Toronto. Quite apart from anything else, an airport would take up at least two-thirds of Central Park, while Toronto City Centre Airport takes up at most about 2% of the city's lake frontage; except for the shipping terminals, most of the rest of the Toronto lake front, from the Rouge River to Long Branch, consists of public open space. If you add in the kilometres of park on three rivers (Rouge, Don, and Humber) Toronto has proportionately even more water-fronting parkland. Please explain why the reluctance of New Yorkers to give up two thirds of Central Park justifies the demand to have-- at the expense of the people of Rexdale and Malton-- absolutely 100% of the Waterfront dedicated to residential and recreational uses.

2) Pearson International Airport and Toronto City Centre Airport have similar numbers of people living at equivalent distances. Pearson has fifty times the passenger traffic, and four times the number of takeoffs and landings. If you regard Toronto City Centre as "grossly" out of equilibrium, what do you call Pearson?

John Spragge