I think you have to go back to the intent of the bank. There was a huge infrastructure gap in this country, and it was probably not possible for public money to bridge that entire gap. The idea of the bank was to bring private capital into the mix with respect to infrastructure projects. Thereby, if you crowd in private sector equity investment, it would allow provinces, territories, and municipalities to perhaps save some money and then invest the money that's saved into other projects that are required.
On February 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.