Hazel McCallion, 101, has been extended as head of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Canada. She will remain airport manager of the country’s largest city for another 3 years, reveals The Guardian relayed by RTL. The centenarian, who is nicknamed “Hurricane Hazel” (Hazel the hurricane, in French), is used to directing. She served for thirty-six years as mayor of Mississauga, a city on the outskirts of Toronto with a population of over 700,000.
She was 94 when she left the Queens of the country’s sixth city in 2014. Three years later, while still holding political posts as an adviser, including to the Premier of Ontario, she has was appointed to head the authority of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority Board of Directors. It is therefore a position that she already knows.
Former hockey player with a brutal style in politics
The one who was a professional hockey player when she was young has a deliberately pugnacious, even brutal style. This did not prevent him from keeping his position for several decades. She marked Canadian political life. Its name became that of a school, a library, a parade and also a baseball team. There is even a train line project which should be called Hazel McCallion, specifies RTL.
Omar Alghabra, Canada’s Transport Minister, congratulated Hazel McCallion, praising her four decades of community service and hailing the fact that she would “oversee and guide Canada’s greatest airport”. The centenarian likes to accumulate. A month earlier, she retained her role as special advisor to the University of Toronto-Mississauga.