Investigating the Increased Risk of Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, and Tumours from Bringing Jets to Toronto’s Waterfront Communities

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The decision

2026-07-13 · Board of Health · amended

As filed

The Board of Health: 1. Requested the Government of Canada and Province of Ontario to ensure that any proposal to expand operations at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport be subject to a comprehensive assessment on the potential health impacts, including introducing jets in close proximity to residential communities, potentially increased noise, increased traffic, and air quality impacts, including ultrafine particles, resulting from the expansion.

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2. Requested the Medical Officer of Health to offer support for the federal and provincial governments assessment of the potential health impacts of an expanded Billy Bishop airport, when sufficient information regarding proposed changes to Billy Bishop becomes available. 3. Requested the Medical Officer of Health to assess the potential health impacts of the proposed expansion plans for operations at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport including introducing jets in close proximity to residential communities, potentially increased noise, increased traffic, and air quality impacts, including ultrafine particles, resulting from the expansion, when expansion plan proposals are available for review and assessment, and report back to the Board of Health with the outcomes of this assessment. 4. Requested the Toronto Port Authority to fund Toronto Public Health for the assessment of health impacts related to the proposed expansion of the Billy Bishop City Airport.

On the agenda

As the city filed it

City Council on May 20 and 21, 2026, adopted Item MM41.19 as amended and, in so doing, has requested the Board of Health to request the Medical Officer of Health to: a. collect all available data from studies related to the potential health impacts of transportation emissions, including ultrafine particles, and noise, including the presence, expansion, and introducing jets in close proximity to residential communities, in the context of Billy Bishop Airport, specifically, Pearson International Airport, and in other jurisdictions internationally; and b.

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work with Health Canada to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential health impacts of jets in proximity to Billy Bishop Airport including an assessment of the related costs and burdens to our public healthcare system, and a comparison to Pearson International Airport.

On the record