Ah, of course, the Edmonton Airports Gestapo, led by Anne "Curbstomp" McLellan.
You do realize that the City of Edmonton owns that land, and Edmonton Airports leases and operates it. If they jointly decide to shut it down, then they are within their rights to do so.
It seems to me, even from your own wording, that every opportunity was afforded to the sublease tenants to help them relocate their operations, and they refused, and continue to refuse.
Tell me, under what law or charter or even precedent is the city or Edmonton Airports required to continue to operate the ECCA at a loss, in perpetuity for all eternity, for the sole benefit of these few people and businesses who have been given the opportunity to relocate but were too stubborn to bother, have no ownership of this land?
If the airport is so important, so vital, such a gem, has so much potential, etc., why haven't these holdouts and the groups like the AEG and EE and the money backing them all offered to buy the airport from the city and operate it themselves?