Government Operations committee  Sure. It's a great question. In some ways it's a very easy question, and in some ways it's not so easy. Certainly what we're talking about in Canada is an environment where we have been doing design-build infrastructure investments for hundreds of years—maybe not hundreds, but c

Government Operations committee  Again, that's a very good question. I think it really does depend on the local circumstances. I mean, in some cases, the municipality has the capacity to make those assessments. In other situations, it doesn't, frankly, and that's where we're talking about building the capacity a

Government Operations committee  Sure. It's an interesting way of looking at the issue. I would echo what Michael said: above all, when you boil all of this down, the need for stable and secure funding is what's paramount. Not only does it send the signals to the public sector that there are going to be investm

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. It's a very good one. Obviously our members have been interested and active in exploring all options for delivering municipal infrastructure. In terms of what we've learned, I think it can be summed up most easily this way: our members feel that P3s

Transport committee  Yes. I apologize, because our latest data is a little out of date, based on 2008 data, but what we found was that from 1996 to 2006, through that 10-year period, the full suite of municipal revenues grew at about 17%, whereas federal revenues grew at about 29% and provincial an

Transport committee  The gas tax was always set up to be the funding envelope from the federal government that was long-term, predictable, and, importantly, flexible for the needs of local communities. You've identified correctly that in smaller municipalities large public-transit-specific projects