[bulliver]

Jesus Christ! I felt compelled to send this to Mr Don Braid:

"Also, Edmontonians have twice voted by plebiscite to keep the airport open. "

Seems you've been fed the same false information as Danielle Smith.
Did you actually fact-check that assertion? Actually, we've never had
a plebiscite to determine whether to keep ECCA open. We had a vote in
1992, and another in 1995. The question on the ballot was whether or
not Edmonton should consolidate passenger traffic to the
International. Both results were to consolidate, the '92 vote by 55%,
and the '95 vote by 77%. But yeah, that's the same as "clearly
endorsing keeping the airport open"....

Also, you should probably get over yourself, I'm sure Mandel's
comments would be similar if someone from Red Deer or Medicine Hat or
Vancouver or wherever came up here and had a grand-standing press
conference on an extremely contentious Edmonton issue, spewing
completely misleading information.

Nice try.

--Me