BOYCOTT ISLAND AIRPORT

CommunityAIR is continuing its campaign to boycott the island airport. We are asking the public to refuse to fly out of the airport. This is the strongest way to express your opposition to the polluting airport that is damaging the quality of life of all people in the city.

Our aim is to build a clean, green waterfront that everyone can enjoy. The only way that this can be achieved is by closing this polluting, noisy, unsafe airport. Please talk to everyone you know about how important it is to close the island airport and convert the land into a park that is open and accessible to everyone. Ask them to join us to “BOYCOTT THE ISLAND AIRPORT.”

If you want to express your opposition to airport expansion, please write to the following politicians or appointed members of the board of the Toronto Port Authority.

The Right Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister,
Office of the Prime Minister,
80 Wellington Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A2
pm@pm.gc.ca

Hon. Lawrence Cannon,
Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities,
Tower C, Place de Ville, 330 Sparks Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N5
Cannon.L@parl.gc.ca

Olivia Chow, MP Trinity Spadina,
Constituency Office,
144 Augusta Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 2L5
Chow.O@parl.gc.ca

Michele McCarthy, Chair,
Toronto Port Authority,
60 Harbour Street,
Toronto, Ontario
mmcarthy@torontoport.com




This is the text of a suggested letter:


Dear Mr./Ms. Politician

Jane Jacobs, the noted urban analyst, wrote…

“Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and livability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.”

I believe that she is right. An expanded island airport will bring excessive air and noise pollution into the downtown of Canada’s largest city. The runways are too short and the facility is unsafe.

Rather than expanding, the airport should close and the land and all of the facilities converted into a park to be enjoyed by the citizens of Toronto and the millions of visitors who come here every year.

Now is the time to act before the quality of life of all people in Toronto is harmed.

Yours truly,



Member of the public