Mind the municipalities
The Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships' Cynthia Robertson offers her views on how the political landscape for PPPs has changed in Canada and why municipalities are poised to pick up the torch from provincial governments in the future
AS CANADA INCREASES its commitment to PPPs via the creation of the PPP Canada Fund, there is much reason to believe that the Canada that will benefit from the fund will be much different from the Canada of the early days of PPPs in the 1990s.
To point out the differences, and opportunities, Infrastructure Investor sought the views of Cynthia Robertson, interim executive director of The Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships and formerly a senior executive with the government of Nova Scotia.