


House of Commons Hansard #143 of the 45th Parliament, 1st session.
Transportation
Oral Questions
September 24th, 2026 / 3:10 p.m.
Jenny Kwan Vancouver East, BC
NDP
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are clear that Canada is not for sale. The Liberals claim they are not selling off Canada's assets, but the doublespeak is deafening. The Prime Minister says he is not privatizing airports, yet he is inviting private investors to take over their operations, collect massive profits and make travel more expensive. In other words, it is privatization. The minister says ports will not be privatized, but in reality, they are opening the door to every aspect of port operations to private investors.
Will the minister just admit that terms like “financial flexibility” and “modernization” are just code for privatization?
Steven MacKinnon Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Liberal
Mr. Speaker, as the member knows, she lives in a community that hosts Canada's largest port by far, and we want to thank the hard-working men and women at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and everyone who works in the port of Vancouver ecosystem.
Port lands are just that. They are federally owned lands run by port authorities that report, obviously, through the Minister of Transport to Parliament, and they lease that land to private operators. It has been that way since everyone can remember and will continue to work that way.


