KINSELLA: Der übermütige Carney sollte alle Pläne zur Privatisierung von Flughäfen ablehnen – Regierungen, die Flughäfen privatisiert haben, haben gemischte Ergebnisse erzielt, und auch die Öffentlichkeit ist nicht begeistert
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mark-carney-airport-privatization-plans
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Did not expect James Moore to be against this idea. If Carney goes through with this unpopular proposal and Moore becomes the next Conservative leader, the next election could very well be competitive.
There is no reason why governments should be running major airports. The Sydney airport is comparable to Pearson, and it was privatized for $30B – so we have the government holding onto a potentially $30B asset that is generating less than a $1B a year – which gets invested back into the airport. In contract, and I am not advocating for new pipeline, the TMX cost us $34B and it is set to return $1.5B a year to the government. The government owning airports is a bit like a family being house poor – you are holding onto an asset that is not generating enough revenue for you and preventing you from making the investments you need like saving up for your kids‘ higher education or for retirement.
Decades ago we privatized rail instead of having an open rail system like in Europe. Is it the same plan for airports?
Yeah I am 100 pct against selling crown land or property because once it’s sold it’s almost impossible to undo it and there is no way that privatization benefits citizens in the long run.
Also I’ve seen way too many „it’s not worth anything because there is asbestos so we are going to auction starting at a dollar to our qualified buyers (ie my friends that somehow is the only company that fits the specific criteria to bid)“ bullshit type deals selling property.
Natural monopolies should all be crown corporations.
I’d say thank a floor crosser for the liberals being able to do whatever the hell they want, but perhaps the conservative floor crossers would have supported this anyway? I have an almost knee-jerk reaction to blaming the conservatives for this, only to forget that Carney is the liberal leader
Ugh…
In every manner that matters to either airlines or the travelling public, Canada has had privatized airports for a generation. The government of the time even scurried away from regulating fees because if the government prevented the privatized airport authorities from raising fees to their heart’s content their lenders would demand loan guarantees.
Privatization is good if there is competition. It’s not like cities are going to have 3-4 airports to compete against each other.
Private industry will milk these airports for the most money possible resulting in the shittiest experience possible. What are you going to do go to another airport?