If you actually speak to various.... British Columbia has far more experience in public-private partnerships than most provinces. That's the debate around public-private partnerships. Yes, you're contracting out the risk. What's the cost? So PPP Canada has their sixth round of competition open. It's a merit-based award. The way the PPP Canada fund works is that the federal government cannot contribute either through PPP Canada or other direct funding any more than 25% of the direct contract costs. That's the actual contribution cap of the federal government through that program. The debate about sharing the risk and at what cost is one that accountants have been batting about for a while. That's the key question: with any PPP deal, what's the cost for that risk?
On May 27th, 2014. See this statement in context.