Mary Jane Bennett argues that Canada should privatize its airports to reduce passenger loss to the United States and bolster our major airports as hubs of commercial activity.
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Media Release – Time to Privatize Canada’s Airports: Airport Policy in Canada
High rents paid to the federal government have forced airports to increase landing fees to uncompetitive levels.
Brookings Economist Decries Transit Subsidies, Calls For Privatization
In his new book, Last Exit: Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System, Brookings Institution economist Clifford Winston contends that transit subsidies are largely the result of labor productivity losses, inefficient operations and counterproductive federal regulations.
Study Cites Privatization In Productivity Gains
By removing the influence of government on their operations, the sector is now better able to base its decisions on sound business practices, rather than political expediency.
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Nav Canada as Beacon
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Socialism In Reverse
“All great ideas go through three stages. In the first stage they are ridiculed. In the second stage, they are strongly opposed. And in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident,” the philosopher Schopenhauer once observed. Privatization may not have reached stage three, but it’s getting there.
Business leaders: Too faint-hearted for politics?
The art of political leadership scares business leaders, most of whom, if they were honest with themselves, would find the political world too complicated, confusing and even frightening.
Nav Canada’s Striking Success
The astounding transformation of Canada’s air traffic control system.