Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport

Exactly.

Are there even enough hotels available? Ottawa Airport might not even have enough customs agents on duty to process an unexpected, fully loaded international wide body jet.

Oh, wow.

I didn't even think about the customs aspect.

Now we have a copy of the book of photos and essays commemorating Ottawa's 200-year history, and we will send it to a listener who emails us with a great idea for a future episode.

You can send your pitch to thisisottawa@cbc.ca. And it doesn't have to be about history, although if that is what you are into, then you will want to go back and listen to the episode called What Happened to Ottawa's Downtown Movie Theaters? Also, for the history buffs out there, we have done a deep dive into a street near the Ottawa Airport called Thad Johnson Private, and the story behind that is fascinating.

[upbeat music] This episode was produced by Julie Ireton.

Julia Sisler is the executive producer of audio for CBC Ottawa, and it was written, edited, and hosted by me, Robin Bresnahan.

In some cases like Hamilton, we felt that there was a need to really upgrade the facility because it was long underserved.

But then you have other airports, whether it's Pearson, Ottawa Airport, that have great state-of-the-art facilities, and there's no role for us to play in those facilities.

Talk to me a little bit about Transborder.

Have you seen any shift since the latest volley of Canadian sentiment coming to the fore once again with the renaming of the lake, which Billy Bishop sits on, which is kind of ironic? Have you seen any changes?

What was before century?

Yow.

Yowie, bay.

Yow, yow, yow, yow, yow.

Oh, yow, ming.

Yes.

As I speak, there's three ports of entry that have been, um, basically either blockaded or partially blockaded, and two of which are absolute economic lifelines for the country.

The-- As of this morning, the w- parts of the convoy were circling the Ottawa Airport.

And there are a number of convoys or attempted convoys in major Canadian cities.

I believe one is set up presently in, um, in Winnipeg, which is in, in, in a province called Manitoba.