You and I will absolutely agree that the current Liberal government is certainly allowing a certain class of Canadian to benefit off the pandemic, and when you look at some of the information coming out of the Bank of Canada and where some of asset growth has been.... But we're kind of talking narrowly about the CIB, the Canada Infrastructure Bank, and its model. Again, I know you and I aren't going to agree on the fundamental principle of whether or not private sector corporations should be able to participate in these types of projects, but I'm hoping that you and I can agree that, even though we come from different perspectives philosophically, at the very least, if you're going to allow profits to be made on large-scale public infrastructure, the risks should come with that. The business model where the Canada Infrastructure Bank underwrites these types of projects, assuming the risks for taxpayers while guaranteeing profits for private sector.... In other words, if the private sector knows that, at the end of the day, the bank, and therefore Canadian taxpayers, will be on the hook, I'm hoping that you and I can find that common ground. Even though we might start from different philosophical positions, we might agree that, at the very least, risk and reward should go together.
On February 23rd, 2021. See this statement in context.