Canada considers privatizing airports. What would that look like?
4/29/202653 min
The federal government says it's looking into potentially privatizing Canada's airports to unlock capital. Power & Politics hears from Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon. Plus, the spring economic update promises more investment in the skilled trades. Sean Strickland, executive director of Canada's Building Trades Union, reacts.
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Karine Roman· Host0:32
[upbeat music] The Carney government considers privatizing airports to help unlock capital. It's also aiming to train 100,000 skilled trades workers. And conservative MP Jamil Jivani is back in Washington using his connections at the White House to talk trade. It's Wednesday, April 29th. I'm Karine Roman. The Power in Politics podcast starts now. [upbeat music] We begin with the federal government's spring economic update. The liberals say they're looking into selling or partially selling federal- federally owned assets as a way to reinvest into Canada.
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We need to modernize our approach how, you know, public assets, not, not just say federal assets, but public assets are built. We need to build so much that, um, we need to look at