An email exchange between Island Airport foe Brian Iler and Toronto Port Authority (TPA) chair Mark McQueen over plans for a pedestrian tunnel gets personal.[BRIEFBREAK][RSSBREAK]
From: Mark McQueen
To: Brian Iler
Subject: Re: Isn’t a tunnel banned by the 2005 cancellation of the bridge?
You are incorrect and have either wrong or incomplete facts. In light of your hostility and where this is obviously headed, I’ll be blocking any further electronic correspondence to my personal business account. You have no right to accuse me in writing of “abuse of process” just because I sit on a board of an entity that you want to close down.
Please feel free to write us via Canada Post care of the TPA.
From: Brian Iler
To: Mark McQueen
A very odd response.
Everyone we’ve spoken with about the regulation has the same response – it clearly refers to a tunnel. What other fixed link could be referred to? If you’re now running off to [Infrastructure Minister John] Baird again for help, that is important for the public to know.
[TPA board member] Doug Reid has stated publicly that the board has not even discussed the tunnel, let alone decide[d] to pursue it. There has been no statement contradicting that. Where’s the defamation in stating these facts?
Either provide the facts that contradict what is known or cease making threats.
From: Mark McQueen
To: Brian Iler
Your facts are either wrong or incomplete. You’ve been forewarned.
From: Brian Iler
To: Mark McQueen
Advancing a proposal as you have without even your own board approval is abusive of proper process. You should be embarrassed…. To have also proceeded as you have in the face of a law prohibiting it is beyond belief.
From: Mark McQueen
To: Brian Iler
Mr. Iler
I advise you not to make such “yet more abuse” accusations in any public forum. They are defamatory. This is not the first time I’ve had to warn you.
From: Brian Iler
To: Mark McQueen
Either there is an answer or there isn’t. The plain wording is that there isn’t. It seems to us that the TPA not only failed to get board authority, it failed to do its homework on whether it could even legally build it. All in all, quite the house of cards.
From: Mark McQueen
To: Brian Iler
You are incorrect.
From: Brian Iler
To: Mark McQueen
I take your response to mean you have no answer. If there was one you would have provided it.
From: Mark McQueen
To: Brian Iler
Cc: Ken Lundy APaul@torontoport.com
Mr. Iler, For confidentiality reasons, we won’t go into detail about our discussions with counsel or various of levels of government.
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