Privatizing airports – for who?

Carney’s Liberals are pondering privatizing airports. What would that do for us? Notice the slickness of Finance Minister François‑Philippe Champagne saying “it’s about modernizing how Canada views its public assets.” If private ownership is viewed through a neoliberal eye as modernizing, maybe. That’s not a given.

Champagne and Carney talk persuasively about “making sure that Canadians get the full value of these federal assets” but it’s smoke and mirrors because once something is sold, it’s sold. Some money goes into a few pockets and the asset no longer belongs to Canadians. It can be sold to forces outside our borders and controlled for corporate profit, not for the benefit of its users.

How is this equated to modernization?