Looking at the infrastructure deficit across the country and looking at the government's interest in increasing capital spending writ large at this point, obviously you'd want as many sources of capital as possible as opposed to exclusively relying upon the federal government and its balance sheet to borrow the additional money to make the contemplated investments.
In terms of how that would best be done, if you look at the balance sheet of the Government of Canada, there are some things they've already done in the past, starting with the straight borrowing of additional money, making those investments themselves on the assets that they own and borrowing the money and potentially funding another organization like the Canada Infrastructure Bank that could potentially partner or make investments or provide loans or, potentially, loan guarantees. There's a suite of options available to the government.
The nature of what you do really depends on the nature of the asset you're looking at. There are some projects that are very large and potentially very high risk, and it potentially makes more sense, if they want to see the projects done, for the government to intervene in that situation because the market won't naturally intervene and actually make it happen.
