I gladly accept Mr. Wilson's apology, and I request that you remove my reply to the comment for which he apologized.

As for the comments by Joana about my comments regarding Oakville: I do not "side with" the "affluent" of Oakville in any meaningful sense. Nobody has seriously proposed putting an airport in Oakville. If and when someone with a spare half billion dollars makes such a proposal, I'll evaluate it based on the same criteria of environmental justice I use for existing airports in the GTA. I simply note the absurdity of the argument that other cities in the area have no "ugly" industry. Pickering has one of the world's largest nuclear complexes on their waterfront, Oshawa and Oakville both have car plants, Oakville still has an oil storage facility in town, Hamilton/Burlington have the steel plants on Burlington Bay. Toronto has so little industry left we run a serious risk of turning into a financial/bedroom community.

John Spragge