The foundations of a competitive Canada : Bases d'un Canada compétitif : la nécessité d'investir de façon stratégique dans les infrastructures

The Foundations of a Competitive Canada: The Need for Strategic Infrastructure Investment December 2013 As Canada’s largest and most influential business association, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the primary and vital connection between business and the federal government. [...] Experience the power of a network of over 450 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 200,000 businesses of all sizes in all sectors of the economy and in all regions. [...] In order to gain a better have all contributed to this decay, much of the decline understanding of the current state of play in Canada, can be attributed to decades of underinvestment and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce enlisted the aid poor maintenance. [...] The mandate of this not-for- 45 agencies and authorities, including the state profit trust is to bring a mix of public and private Department of Transportation, the New York investment to infrastructure projects. [...] As of November 2011, half of the P3 concessions that had reached financial close in 2011 used long-term publically rated bonds, and new issues are oversubscribed.13 Due in part to the standardized approaches to P3 delivery taken by Canadian provinces, and the very positive response to P3s in the Canadian capital markets, the Canadian P3 market is now known as a whole to be one of the most stable i