Public Private Partnerships (P3s)
Under P3 arrangements, the private sector plays a key role in financing, designing, building, operating, or even owning facilities or infrastructure that are otherwise designed to be public services. When private companies take over a public project, the focus shifts away from the public interest and meeting community needs, to ensuring a profit for the companies’ shareholders. P3 projects typically cost more, deliver less, and compromise public control and accountability over critical infrastructure services.
Hands off VIA Rail!
Send a message to the federal government about VIA Rail: revitalize it, don’t privatize it ...
Stopping Parliament’s echo-chamber on privatization
The halls of power are an echo chamber. I watched this in action last week — and realized how desperately ...
Increased climate impacts require action, not privatization
The combined impact of climate-related stress on natural water infrastructure and decades of neoliberal privatization of built water infrastructure has ...
Council of Canadians tells MPs to stop infrastructure privatization
Excerpts from Climate and Social Justice Campaigner Dylan Penner’s presentation to Members of Parliament about why the Canada Infrastructure Bank ...
Trudeau’s transit announcement throws Just Recovery under the bus
The federal government has announced new funding for transit infrastructure. Our movement needs to ramp up organizing for sustained operational funding ...
The federal government’s scheme to promote water P3s in Canada
For the last year, the CIB has signaled its intention to promote water and wastewater P3s across the country, touting ...
Don’t let the federal government privatize your water – a lesson from Mapleton, ON
Communities across Canada must learn from the example in Mapleton and reject any attempt to privatize these critical infrastructure and services. Water ...
The Canada Infrastructure Bank should not be part of the post-COVID recovery
Written by Vi Bui and Dylan Penner As communities continue to face the consequences of the pandemic, protect our most ...
