And three major airports — Vancouver, Ottawa and Calgary — have banded together to launch a public information campaign to argue against selling off airport assets to the highest bidder.

“We’re not just to accept a policy decision that has a tremendous impact on airports in Canada without saying a word,” said Mark Laroche, president and chief executive officer of the Ottawa International Airport Authority.

“We want to make sure that if there are policy decisions in that way, that everyone knows what the consequences are,” he said in an interview Thursday.