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Mark Carney says privatizing Canada’s busiest airports will lower costs for consumers. Evidence shows the opposite

It’s easy to understand why the day-to-day operations of Canada’s four busiest airports are on the federal auction block.

Ottawa would retain the land and infrastructure, but sell the businesses that run them, which handled 115 million passengers last year.

When he announced the sale on Sept. 15, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the feds would reap “tens of billions of dollars” from the sale.

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