Yarmouth International Airport

THE YARMOUTH INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT of these type airports across Canada were federally-owned and operated up until 1997. The Airport was divested to the municipality in 1997, so we’ve been on our own since then. The provincial and federal governments do play a very small role, based on capital requirements, but those requests are on a case-by-case basis, and not necessarily approved. As you might imagine, capital refresh at an airport is not a small undertaking; there are preset funding arrangements, federally, through Transport Canada, but because of our size and magnitude of operations, we don’t fit their criteria for their traditional funding model, so it adds another layer of complexity for our small Airport here in Yarmouth.” Because Yarmouth Airport lacks a reliable source of major funding, Muise says that it must look elsewhere in order to ensure its future health and longevity. One prospective avenue that the Airport is looking into is the possibility of luring a seafood export business