{"id":829304,"date":"2026-07-27T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:08:11","slug":"airport-expert-expects-ottawa-will-eye-major-airports-for-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829304\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Expert Expects Ottawa Will Eye Major Airports for Privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(VOCM News)<\/p>\n

The public flying experience could look a lot different in the coming decades as Ottawa considers the privatization of some major airports.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the federal government announced a Sovereign Wealth Fund \u2013 also known as the Canada Strong Fund.<\/p>\n

To inject money into the fund, the feds are considering the privatization of some major airports \u2013 though the concept is still in the very early stages.<\/p>\n

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Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

John Gradek, an airport expert at McGill University, expects that cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal will be high on the priority list because they could result in the biggest return for government.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, he believes it will become an issue of real estate and what can be done with undeveloped land at each facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VOCM News) The public flying experience could look a lot different in the coming decades as Ottawa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,20739,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-829304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-ottawa","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}