Indeed. It's hard to blame GTAA though as they gave high-end a crack with T1. We, as Canadians, bitched for about 8 years after T1 opened about how Pearson was the most expensive airport on the planet: without government subsidies it appeared that way on tickets.
As a result, the federal government completely restructured the governance layer of the GTAA (board seat distribution between various governments/civilian spots changed) and they adopted a priority to lower landing fees by going hard into retail and other sources of revenue outside of airline operations [Union West was all about land-lease revenue]; and a lower cap on capital debt was also put into place.