This was my final recommendation. I think in Canada we need to improve procurement, period, full stop, for all types of infrastructure projects. We need to have mechanisms in place to ensure that we have appropriate procurement for public-private partnerships and for conventional-build projects.
The agencies that have been put in place have a lot of skill in procurement. They brought in trained staff who have specific expertise in different areas of project procurement. I think we should be applying those both to public-private partnerships and to conventional-build projects, and leaving it in the hands of experts to deliver these projects once the traditional policy approaches are used to determine which ones. I think we could see improvements in both public-private partnerships and conventional-build if we applied these same professionalizations of the procurement process.