Soo council to discuss Jack Garland resolution

Sault Ste. Marie city council will discuss a resolution from North Bay at its meeting tomorrow night.

The resolution asks Sault Ste. Marie council to support North Bay's bid to have Jack Garland Airport established as an international air cargo and freight receiving/ distribution centre for Ontario.

North Bay wants freight to come to the city instead of to a proposed airport facility in Pickering, where federal land was expropriated in the 1970s but never used.

Here's the resolution:

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Whereas Pickering is examining becoming an alternate air cargo airport for the Toronto Pearson Airport; and

Whereas the City of North Bay has an under-utilized 10,000-square-foot runway complete with a new airport terminal and has expressed interest in expanding air cargo services; and

Whereas Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay partnered to examine air cargo opportunities for Ontario and the northern American states and this partnership generally supported North Bay being an alternate air cargo airport for southern Ontario, mainly Pearson International Airport and supported Sault Ste. Marie becoming an air cargo airport for the northern American states and this relieves congestion in Southern Ontario:

Now Therefore be it resolved that Sault Ste. Marie City Council supports the November 29 2004 City of North Bay resolution (No. 2004-848) concerning a request to the Provincial and Federal Governments to take the necessary steps to establish the North Bay Jack Garland Airport as an international air cargo airport and

Further that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the City of North Bay, MPP Sault Ste. Marie and MP Sault Ste. Marie.