David Miller’s physician probably got a call today from our hyperventilating mayor.

At long last, the Toronto Port Authority, and Regco, announced that indeed Robert Deluce’s airline will get started this fall. Even Air Canada says they’ll bring a few flights back to the Island Airport with the new ferry to arrive in a few months.

This is of course what all the lie-ridden mayoral campaign was all about back in 2003. “Stopping the airport expansion” was a fake achievement that kept Miller’s leftie lakeshore friends happy, and him with on-demand self-congratulatory publicity. Having that in his back pocket was handy, considering his rather lacklustre leadership since taking control of the municipality. However, it looks like he and his friends have been out-maneuvered: the new airline will come, the new airplanes will come (they are much quieter than GXRP, by the way), new business will come, and the feds were forced to subsidize it all. Hm, GXRP’s hangar rent will probably rise, d’oh.

The timing of all this is perfect. The incoming conservative federal government is unlikely to do any political favours (in the form of interfering with the Port Authority) for Miller, who after all campaigned in the federal election in support of the liberals or what have you. Miller himself will be up for election again this winter, which is by coincidence (I am sure) just weeks after the new Regco airline will be flying proud.

In other words, Miller will have failed on two fronts after three years of gloating, and the city’s voters will be made aware of it right at election time. He better hope for some act of god.