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Since not everyone reads French, here's an English link to the standards for naming in Canada. I skimmed through it and it appears to say that unless there are exceptional circumstances, people should be dead at least a year and preferably five before having something named after them. And Canada agreed to the principle of the idea at the UN.
But naming an airport after a Prime Minister may be an exceptional circumstances for all I know. I have never heard that anyone had to be dead either. I am not a sports fan but wasn't there an arena in Winnipeg named after some hockey player who played in the last Olympics? He used to practise or play there as a child and I thought they named it after him. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nr...accessible.pdf
Am I missing something? Everyone keeps posting the rules about naming GEOGRAPHICAL place names when we are talking about airports, not a mountain, lake etc.
There are no rules UN or otherwise that I can find about naming airports. Help me please, because I feel like I'm shouting and no one is hearing me. LOL
Am I missing something? Everyone keeps posting the rules about naming GEOGRAPHICAL place names when we are talking about airports, not a mountain, lake etc.
There are no rules UN or otherwise that I can find about naming airports. Help me please, because I feel like I'm shouting and no one is hearing me. LOL
I'm hearing you and I am not sure whether an airport is considered a geographical area or not. It's not clear to me from any site whether they mean airports or not.
I'm hearing you and I am not sure whether an airport is considered a geographical area or not. It's not clear to me from any site whether they mean airports or not.
Well, to me, an airport is not a geographical feature. Mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys, etc are.
An airport is really a structure, like any other service building. So I don't think the UN geographical names apply.
Well, to me, an airport is not a geographical feature. Mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys, etc are.
An airport is really a structure, like any other service building. So I don't think the UN geographical names apply.
That's true, but in most jurisdictions they tend to apply the same naming standards to them as for anything else.
In any event, there is nothing rigid about the UN guideline, and compliance appears to be entirely voluntary. It's just to give jurisdictions that have adopted it something "larger than them" to back up their toponymic decisions.
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She might be a candidate for a couple of mountain peaks, but not an airport.
They are really biased bad puns. Can planes take off with only a left wing?
Haha that they can't. But have we ever had a PM so far on one side? Most Canadian PMs have been pretty centrist. But the CPC now is full of a bunch of whacko birds. I was reading yesterday about a CPC candidate ranting about Halloween because it was an affront to God. These types of people used to be laughed out of any room in Canada, and would never get in a political party. What happened?
The NDP also has left wing whacko birds. That's why I'm so glad Canada is one of the only countries in the world that defies Duverger's Law.
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