This is an excerpt from an interview of Ben Smith, Air Canada’s president of passenger airlines, by Karl Moore, a professor of strategy and organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, and published by the Financial Post. You can find the full interview at this address. http://business.financialpost.com/executive/c-suite/air-canada-boss-speaks-about-learning-from-westjet-and-fighting-porter “When it comes to Porter, I think they ...
A Torontonian’s reply to M.P. Scheer from Regina
Dear Mr. Scheer, I was surprised to see you, a member of parliament from Regina, speak with such authority on the issue of jets at the Toronto Island Airport in the Canadian Parliament recently. To be specific, you declared that the MP from Spadina-York, Adam Vaughan, "cares passionately about this because he represents a lot of ...
House of Commons debate
Every now and again, opposition parties in the House of Commons are given the opportunity to bring a motion of their choosing. On March 9th the Conservative Party brought forward a motion criticizing the government for blocking the jet expansion of the Island Airport. This is part of the transcript of that debate. You can find ...