Ottawa urged to protect airport lands
After Aéroports de Montréal shaved clean a piece of wild land near the airport, removing an entire ecosystem that supports butterflies, bees and birds, some politicians are urging Ottawa to step in and protect the area.
su 10:20 on 2022-07-06 Permalink
“removing an entire ecosystem that supports butterflies, bees and birds”…and hence Homo Sapiens
Meezly 16:24 on 2022-07-06 Permalink
Interesting that just when a labour shortage crisis was blossoming at the airport, ADM opted to landscape 200 hectares of an ecologically sensitive area. Uh, priorities?
Spi 17:42 on 2022-07-06 Permalink
Yeah, it’s almost as if they probably contracted the work out to a landscaping company instead of doing it themselves.
dhomas 07:26 on 2022-07-07 Permalink
Contracting out work for unnecessary landscaping costs money. Money that could be otherwise spent hiring more resources (or paying existing resources better) for their core operations AS AN AIRPORT. Meezly’s comment about priorities is totally on point.
Spi 10:12 on 2022-07-07 Permalink
I don’t think you understand how the airport and most airports around the world function. Practically every operation is subcontracted out or a federal agency, Who should they have hired that’s usually under their employment?
Luggage check in and customer service agents? Those are airline employees.
Security? That’s CATSA.
Border Agents? CBSA
Luggage Handlers? that’s Swissport.
They have contracts with suppliers, and those suppliers in turn have employment deals negotiated with unions.
Meezly 10:56 on 2022-07-07 Permalink
According to wikipedia, the ADM’s missions are “to provide quality airport service for the Montréal region, help the economic development of the Montréal region, and develop a harmonious coexistence with the surrounding environment.”
As someone who uses the airport at least once a year and has concerns for local ecosystems, surely I should be able to question ADM’s priorities about whether they’re meeting their primary missions?
Spi 11:23 on 2022-07-07 Permalink
Of course you do but do so with a substantive point not some knee jerk argument not based on the actual functioning of things.
Meezly 11:49 on 2022-07-07 Permalink
I really don’t appreciate your policing tone and know it all attitude, Spi.
walkerp 11:35 on 2022-07-08 Permalink
One of the reasons management outsources is so they can have a scapegoat, exactly the craven argument that you are using Spi. So what if they have external contractors? It’s still management’s responsibility to ensure that deliverables are met and if they are too weak (or corrupt) to pressure their vendors to live up to their contractors, then they need to find the budget elsewhere to support their customers. The problem here is that management’s goals are not to support the customers of the airport, but to maximize profits.
Just such a weak argument to say because they subcontract they should be excused from shitting the bed and destroying an ecosystem wastefully and unnecessarily.