Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed on Friday that his government is considering making the land needed to accommodate a sprawling new two-million square foot convention centre by filling in parts of Lake Ontario.

“I wouldn’t call it an island, but we may look at putting fill in until we can put (up) a convention centre,” Ford said on Friday at an unrelated event. “We’re losing out on so many large conventions in the world because we just don’t have the size and it’s a dated convention (centre) but we’re exploring that.

“It’s no different than anything else,” he added. “The environmental process would move forward, but we have a tremendous amount of fill right now and we need to expand the land.”