How Ottawa Handled Our Warnings

Internal government documents — released under ATIP A-2025-00566 — reveal that serious allegations of corruption, safety risks, and community health impacts were treated as a political messaging issue rather than a regulatory problem.

TL;DR – What these records show

Fabio Ovettini’s allegations reached the Minister’s Office and were explicitly described internally as “corruption at the GTAA.”
Instead of investigating, staff attempted to build talking points to “counter” those claims.
No evidence exists of any safety analysis, health review, or enforcement action.
Ottawa repeatedly forwarded concerns back to the GTAA — the entity under scrutiny.

1. The Minister’s Office Treated Corruption Allegations as a PR Issue

One of the most telling documents is an internal email from Daniel Kucriek, a Regional Advisor in the Minister of Transport’s office.

He summarizes Fabio Ovettini’s complaint as:
“a lack of transparency and claimed corruption at the GTAA.”

Instead of triggering an audit, investigation, or due-diligence process, he asks colleagues whether there is anything that could counter the corruption claims. This confirms that:

The allegations reached political staff at the highest level;
They were not treated as a regulatory trigger;
The primary goal was damage control, not oversight.

2. The “Official” Response Was Just a GTAA Brochure

Transport Canada’s prepared response to the MP consists almost entirely of a list of GTAA-controlled tools: WebTrak, community meetings, the noise complaint form, and a hotline.

No independent verification.
No regulatory enforcement.
No safety assessment.
No health assessment.

The so-called “transparency response” is, in reality, a set of GTAA marketing links presented as oversight. It acknowledges community concerns only to redirect constituents back to the same system that communities say is being misused to minimize, obscure, or distort data.

3. Ottawa Had the Health, Safety, and Noise Evidence on File

The release includes documents submitted to Transport Canada by Fabio Ovettini between 2024 and 2025:

Sleep deprivation science and WHO guidelines;
Expert evidence linking fatigue to catastrophic accidents;
Acacia Park nighttime overflight logs and decibel levels;
Annotated noise monitor events showing unexplained gaps.

This is critical: Ottawa can never claim it “did not know” about the health and safety consequences of Pearson’s overnight operations.

4. Multiple Constituents Told MP Judy Sgro They Felt Ignored

The records also include letters from other residents — not just a single complainant — describing excessive hold times, lack of support, and the feeling that federal representatives are deflecting the issue.

These are now Transport Canada records, which means both the MP and the department were officially notified of the failing engagement.

5. What’s Missing: No Investigations, No Analysis, No Oversight

The ATIP response letter invokes only section 19(1) (personal information). There are no s.21 (“advice to government”) or s.23 (legal advice) redactions.

This strongly suggests no internal analysis, no legal review, and no policy work was ever done.

For nearly two years of warnings:

No safety assessment was conducted.
No health review was triggered.
No investigation of GTAA transparency or data manipulation was initiated.
No departmental briefings exist beyond political messaging.

This absence is an important form of evidence: it shows systemic failure, not just disagreement.

6. Download the Full Documents

Note: These documents were released under ATIP A-2025-00566. They contain personal information and signatures that must be removed before public release. Once sanitization is complete, the download links will be posted here.

ATIP Release Package (A-2025-00566)

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Transport Canada Response Letter

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