Joe, you wrote: "Where on this blog did you pick up the delusional notion that anyone wants to build more airports?"
On March 7th Mr Spragge wrote: "We have to decide whether we want to share the burdens with some degree of fairness, or whether we will insist on dumping all of the costs of aviation on the people of northwestern Toronto and northeastern Mississauga."

I believe the ensuing discussion suggesting that airports be put in other places is to point out the inanity of Mr Spragge's argument. Airports are a burden - they may bring tourists to Toronto, but no tourist wants to check into a hotel near Pearson, they may carry sick patients to emergency centres but they also add to health care costs and illness by increasing air pollution and adding to respiratory diseases and cancer, they may bring jobs but they also lower real estate values.

The suggestion that others share the burden is like suggesting that we decentralize industrial areas, building factories, incinerators and the necessary infrastructure in other neighbourhoods so that others may share the burden of lowered realty values and increased smog and illness. Any urban planner would think this a bad plan. Certainly it is a shame that people live so close to Pearson, no one will dispute that, but it does little to improve anyone's life to build up another airport elsewhere. In fact, the expansion of TCCA will have little or no perceptible effect on the lives of those living near Pearson, but it has certainly done much to adversely affect the living conditions of those living on the waterfront by bringing more traffic, noise, carcinogens, real, smog and lower estate values. The waterfront has in the past also been one of the areas that tourists want to visit, but few people are going to want to attend concerts with noisy planes passing by or eat at outdoor waterfront restaurants with noise and pollutants in the air.

Furthermore, I realise I was being hypocritical.  Calling someone's notion 'delusional' is patronising and disrespectful. I don't think anyone ever really suggested or believed that someone wanted to build more airports. Your tone and dismissiveness of others' comments does little to support your agument.