Mr. Speaker, the Canada Infrastructure Bank has finally admitted what we have known all along: Publicly funded infrastructure projects will be allowed to charge Canadians to generate private profits. That includes the REM transit system in Montreal, which received over a billion dollars from the bank.
Which big corporation will be generating profits by charging riders? My colleagues can guess. It will be SNC-Lavalin. The bank was even planning on having private investors charge Mapleton residents to access their own municipal drinking water.
Why is the Liberal government giving public money to its corporate friends, and then turning around and charging Canadians for using their own infrastructure?