David:

Yes the airport was there before the condos, and before the airport was an amusement park on that exact piece of land, and before that it was a fishing community, and before that it was a healing place for the Mississaugas that lived in the area.

The use of any given piece of land changes over time.  Now the land immediately to the north of the airport is a high density community of several thousand people.  The area is part of Toronto's Waterfront, the largest urban redevelopment project in North America.  By the time the project is finished it will house 100,000 people and another 100,000 people will work on the Waterfront.

This is exactly why we are fighting to close the airport and turn the airport lands over to a park.  An airport is completely incompatible with a clean, green Waterfront.

Bill Freeman