Adam Radwanski: Ottawa is set to release an update on Mark Carney’s airport privatization plan. Here are some of the questions it could answer - Toronto Star

The feds are soon to release a document to stakeholders that offers some further details about why they want to privatize several Canadian airports.

People move through Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in September.

Adam Radwanski is a business columnist for the Star, focused on the intersection of the economy, politics and public policy. Reach him via email: aradwanski@thestar.ca

We should soon get some fresh hints about how Ottawa is approaching the privatization of Canada’s largest airports.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has told stakeholders that it will soon release a document, generally described as a discussion paper or preliminary information package, that offers some further details about its thinking.

This likely won’t be anything resembling a final plan, which isn’t expected before 2027.

But there’s seemingly some sense within the government that it needs to sustain momentum, and elaborate on Carney’s vague announcement at his September foreign investor summit that private operators will be able to take over airport management, as potential investors have started to grow impatient.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday that he would be opening up airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal to private investors.