ON: Ottawa Spends $150M Maintaining Pickering Land It Seized For an Airport Never Built

July 31, 2017

Over the past 19 years, the Canadian government has spent more than $150 million maintaining Pickering land it seized in the 70’s — for an airport that’s never been built.

And while $59.2 million of that sum is listed for site repairs and maintenance, a group of local advocates say they’ve watched as properties under federal management were left to rot and the tenants evicted before the buildings were demolished.

“Many of those were perfectly livable houses if they had been maintained by the landlord as they should have been,” Mary Delaney, a resident of the land and chair of the anti-airport advocacy group Land over Landings, told the Star.

Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/07/30/ottawa-spends-150-million-maintaining-pickering-land-it-seized-for-an-airport-never-built.html