Absolutely. Taxpayers are either paying the cost through their taxes—members have talked about the cost and the losses through the CIB—or else individuals and households are paying it through increased user fees. That was part of the big model for the CIB; they expected each one to be a revenue-generating project.
Those costs largely fall—they're user fees, they're very regressive—on those who are using the service. This was a shift from a lot of the traditional P3s Canada has had that in recent years haven't involved user fees; basically, the public sector has directly paid for them.
However, the idea behind the CIB was to rely much more on user fees, and increasing those would increase costs for households—for ordinary Canadians.