Letter to Chuck Strahl, Minister of Transport, Canada:

I am in profound disagreement with your support for changes to the
 Canada Marine Act that would legalize the currently illegal tunnel
 proposal for Toronto's western gap.

 Our community has listened carefully to the arguments presented, and
 watched the behaviour of the various stakeholders with great interest.
 It comes to this: Further encouragement and material support for the special interests
 of Robert Deluce and his currently unprofitable Porter airline by the
 TPA and the Harper government is undemocratic and unacceptable.

 Mr. Deluce has been the recipient of some $50 million of taxpayers'
 largesse to date, and this tunnel represents millions more in support
 of his business. We have seen enough.

 We perceive the TPA as an unelected, crony-laden boondoggle, whose
 apparent raison d'etre is to pay big salaries to its executives while
 they do the bidding of a few well-connected players. There is no
 discernible useful purpose in this body in serving the citizens of
 Toronto. Instead the TPA appears to serve the very "Toronto elites"
 the Stephen Harper government so shrilly denounces.

 Their tactics are transparent: Unable to gain traction with the facts,
 irrational and illogical statements are issued to compensate:
  "A tunnel would also provide island residents with reliable, year-
 around access to the, mainland"
 This is just one of the utterly false and misleading statements made
 by the TPA.

 The TPA's "business case" is full of obfuscation and untruths.
 And Porter? Perhaps Mr. Deluce can be encouraged to duke it out on the
 Dragon's Den, with all the other eager entrepreneurs.
 I'm sure the market will be as kind to him as it is to anybody else
 with a grand vision.

 I demand that you, and the ministry you lead, stop trying to alter the
 Canada Marine Act Regulations in order to support a tunnel of any kind
 to the BB airport.

 Thank you.

 Alan Duffy