The Canada Infrastructure Bank should give us projects for the people and the planet as well as profit.
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US Infrastructure – What, Who, and How?
A guide to making infrastructure decisions impartially, rationally, and sensibly. A colleague recommended a Brooking Institution paper and it is a great read. Here are some extracts (emphasis and formatting added) from a recent (February 2017) paper from The Hamilton...
Trudeau, Trump, Cart, Horse
Both Trump and Trudeau are enamoured with getting the private sector involved in public infrastructure projects. But analyzing value for money before deciding what to build, why to build it, how to build it and where to put it, they are putting the cart before the...
Trump/Trudeau on infrastructure – Same Difference?
Trump and Trudeau might disagree on climate policy but they seem to agree on preferring public-private over government investment in infrastructure. Both want to build bridges between public and private infrastructure. Paul Krugman questions why the private sector...
Ethical Infrastructure
The Globe and Mail reported (“Liberals prepare to pitch infrastructure bank to investors”, Nov. 4, 2016) that to sell the concept of Canada’s newly minted Infrastructure Bank “Finance Minister Bill Morneau said he and several other cabinet ministers are preparing...
Do We Have the Ear of the Government? Unlikely.
I’d like to claim that after we wrote about the need for an infrastructure bank in Canada last week, Dominic Barton consulted with us to come up with a “blueprint for Canada’s economic future”[1] and that he took our recommendation to build “a national arm’s-length...
An Infrastructure Bank for Canada
Canada needs an infrastructure bank. Not necessarily to give more, or cheaper, funds to provinces and municipal infrastructure owners/proposers but because we need to ensure the highest priority projects are built right. We need the infrastructure bank to bring an...
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