Time will tell. I think it's a very imperfect way to deal with.... The history of Canada is to try government cooperation. There's not going to be a constitutional...as Professor Stoney says. I don't see a solution to the real grievance of municipalities. We're stuck with one another to cooperate, to come up with federal, provincial, municipal arrangements to build infrastructure.
What I hope we don't see is what we saw in Abbotsford in 2011. The community needed $65 million to do water treatment. Some money would be available from the federal government if it came from the P3 Canada fund. An election was fought over the issue and in B.C. you can put a plebiscite question before the people. The people of Abbotsford were given a question: do you want a P3 water treatment plant? And 75% voted no. They kicked out the mayor who had been in office for two terms. The issue was water.
So that's not a good way to do infrastructure in Abbotsford. They need the support of the federal government. They need the support of the B.C. government. The mayors we talked to are not ideological on the question, they're quite prepared to consider forms of P3s. There are forms of P3 that CUPE has no issue with.
Marrying together design and build makes a lot of sense, instead of having separate companies, where one does the design, the other does the build. That's a P3.