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PEOPLE & EVENTS
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ANADIANS ARE INCREASINGLY PESSIMISTIC about
the future state of the country’s infrastructure, given the country’s booming
population and staggering demands
for new housing, a new survey warns.
Sixty-three per cent are also not
con昀椀dent governments alone can cover the
costs of building and maintaining new and
upgraded infrastructure required to handle
that growth without raising taxes.
The results of the poll, conducted by Abacus on behalf of The Canadian Council for
Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP), were
released at P3 2024, Canada’s Infrastructure
Conference in front of close to 900 Canadian
and international delegates.
“Canadians clearly see trouble on the
horizon for our country’s infrastructure,”
said CCPPP’s president and CEO Lisa
Mitchell. “Still su昀昀ering from the e昀昀ects of
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in昀氀ation and its daily hits on their household
budgets, they’re also open to governments
taking a more pragmatic approach to this
challenge.
“That’s why there is broad support across
all regions, demographics and political
parties for governments to partner with the
private sector to help shoulder the load and
share these 昀椀nancial costs and risks,” she
said.
“The survey results demonstrate Canadians strongly prefer P3s in practice. This cuts
across all regions, political parties and even
generations, from Gen Z to the Boomers.
This is a message our politicians, government o昀케cials, the media and the public need
to hear. We cannot bridge this country’s
infrastructure gap, improve the lives of
Canadians or grow our economy without the
public and private sectors working together
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