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Customs user fees hampering airport growth: regional operators want Ottawa to pick up tab for border services.

Publication: Northern Ontario Business
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Customs user fees hampering airport growth: regional operators want Ottawa to pick up tab for border services.(TRANSPORTATION)(Canada Border Services Agency's new safety regulations)(Dryden airport )

Article Excerpt
Dryden airport manager George Friesen would like to turn his municipally-run facility into a profit centre.

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When Transport Canada transferred the assets of small airports to communities in 1998, the onus was on them to generate business on their own.

That's been a tough proposition for many because of a constant stream of downloaded responsibilities.

A big hurdle to opportunity is the federal system of imposing user fees on small airports to pay for Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) inspectors.

With a land development strategy underway, Dryden airport wants to market itself as a centre of commerce and looks to attract an air carrier for winter vacation charters connecting to southerly flights.

Friesen is part of a growing movement of small operators who want the federal government to abolish these user fees imposed on them.

The Regional Community Airports Coalition of Canada calls the fees "highly discriminatory" to small airports. They want Ottawa to start picking...

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