Bob Knight

Alone but never lonely, that's how I like to be.

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

Buy Canadian 🇨🇦 (chips)

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Duffy’s comments yesterday are a useful reminder of the bottomless vulgarity and mendacity of Trumpism. Carney, on the other hand, has spoken truth to power. He has reminded us how free men and women should stand up to autocratic domination."

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[Stephanie Smyth @stephaniesmyth]

Thank you to Prime Minister Carney for rejecting Doug Ford’s reckless plan to massively expand Billy Bishop Airport. Ford tried to bulldoze it through without a clear business case or any real transparency. Today, evidence and common sense won.

[Leslie Church 🇨🇦 @lesliechurch]

Please see my statement on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

[Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 @MayorOliviaChow]

I want to thank the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transportation for listening to the people of Toronto.

Thank you to everyone who spoke out, shared your voice, and stood up for our community. Your relentless advocacy has made a difference.

Now that this expansion is not moving forward, we are calling on the Province to return the City’s land.

Together, we can continue working to build a waterfront for future generations, with new parks, housing and more.

[Retired. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦 + 🇩🇪 🕊 🇺🇦 @TPS_32Planner]

Close Billy Bishop Airport entirely and turn it into a world class public park. This would be awesome.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

There is no rational case for jets at Billy Bishop and there never has been.

It's not safe.

It would devastate migratory bird populations.

And there is no viable business case at all bc it would drive people away from the lakefront. Who wants to eat or drink while jets thunder just a few hundred feet away?

So, this is about one man's peculiar sense of vanity. A Premier who dreams of flying a luxury jet in and out downtown.

Every federal Member of Parliament of all parties should shut this down right now.

There's no need for a consultation.

Shut. It. Down.
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#topoli

[Bob Knight @Bob_Knight]

Donation made!

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

The Ontario NDP paid for the bus to Ottawa.

If you'd like to donate to help us fight the airport expansion and save the waterfront, the link is:
Chris Glover « Ontario NDP https://t.co/25lNcW3VCu
#onpoli

[Retired. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦 + 🇩🇪 🕊 🇺🇦 @TPS_32Planner]

Maybe the best solution for the Billy Bishop Airport is to close it entirely and reclaim the space for Torontonians to use as parkland. We could call it Toronto Place Park.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

Jets on the Toronto waterfront would be an abomination. We have two airports that work great as they are. Please stop this in its tracks @MarkJCarney.

[Adam ⚾️ @GradyTripp00]

Hey @rickygervais,

The Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has expropriated all of the Toronto Islands from the @cityoftoronto in order to turn them into a massive airport.

We noticed that you love them as much as all Torontonians do. Perhaps you can help us fight back?

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

I think The Islands in Toronto is one of my favourite places in the world. I spotted Jane there with all her friends. ( I got caught 😂)

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

30 million dollars was spent to transform an abandoned parking lot into a beautiful waterfront park. Trillium park is a peaceful oasis for jogging, cycling, fireside chats and walks with the dog but it could soon become the closest mainland point to a massive new jetway. So sad!

[NoJetsTO @NoJetsTO]

PRESS RELEASE: NoJetsTO Condemns Announced Expropriation of City Owned Airport Lands and the Expropriation of Little Norway Park as part of Bill 110.

“Ford plans to take our land, pave our park, and leave Torontonians in the dark” https://t.co/laHiM5Aw8v #topoli #onpoli

[Peter Tabuns @petertabuns.bsky.social @Peter_Tabuns]

Ford’s plan to expand the island airport doesn’t make economic sense or environmental sense. Look at the picture below on how intrusive a new jet landing strip would be. PM Carney can stop this. He must.

[Neil Pasricha @NeilPasricha]

Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney),

I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront.

I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony.

When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake.

Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario.

Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4)

Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7)

Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8)

Prime Minister Carney:

It is not too late.

Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake.

We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this.

We don’t need this.

We can already go anywhere we want to go.

I live right in downtown Toronto.

I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow.

I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year.

In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11)

Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins.

Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar).

We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here.

If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country.

We don’t want this.

This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.

Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12)

I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15)

Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised.

Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18)

Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19)

Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets.

Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached)

Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached)

(Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … )

We can’t afford this.

Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21)

Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23)

In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25)

Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28)

Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport.

(Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?)

Prime Minister Carney:

We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this.

Please say no to this expansion plan.

Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake.

At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33)

Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do.

The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country.

Would New York City pave over Central Park?

Would Paris put runways on the Seine?

We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford.

It's not too late.

Please say no.

Thank you,

Neil Pasricha

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CC: Minister of Transport @SteveMcKinnon, Minister of Environment @JulieDabrusin, Mayor of Toronto @OliviaChow, MP @RunChiNguyenRun, MP @J_Maloney, MP @JulieDzerowicz, MP @Coteau, MP @Rob_Oliphant, MP @Vgasparro, MP @Yvan_Baker, MP @Jzerucelli, Ontario Minister of Transportation @PrabSarkaria, Ontario Minister of Infrastructure @KingaSurmaMPP, @PortsToronto, MPP @MaritStiles, MPP @JessicaBellTO, MPP @ChrisGlover, Councillor @BravoDavenport, Councillor @DianneSaxxe, Candidate @Massey_Toronto, @Nieuport, @JenniferQuinnTO, @Envirodefense, @BirdsCanada, @NoJetsTo, @CycleTO, @TheGlobeAndMail, @TorontoStar, @CBCToronto, @TheCurrentCBC, @BlogTO

[ausma malik @ausmalik]

Torontonians deserve to have a say over our city and our waterfront. We’ve worked hard to keep making it a vibrant and sustainable place to live, work, learn, visit, and enjoy.

My and @MayorOliviaChow's motion is at Council today - add your support at: https://t.co/bFwZGDiUAt

[Bruce Anderson @bruceanderson]

And yet.

[Bob Knight @Bob_Knight]

@bnicholsonsmith Did you mean “on a mound”?

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

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