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Toby Sanger

Toby Sanger is the senior economist for the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

How the Trudeau government responds to infrastructure bank idea will be moment of truth

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth makes it look like a match made in heaven. Canada’s public sector has billions in

Opinion | BY TOBY SANGER | October 31, 2016

The advisory council is calling on Ottawa to create a Canadian Infrastructure Development Bank and fund it with $40-billion. They suggest this would attract an additional $160-billion from private institutional investors to finance large public infrastructure projects, including toll highways and bridges, high-speed rail, ports, airports, power transmission, public transit, 'smart-city,' broadband, and natural resource infrastructure. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

How the Trudeau government responds to infrastructure bank idea will be moment of truth

Opinion | BY TOBY SANGER | October 31, 2016

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth makes it look like a match made in heaven. Canada’s public sector has billions in

How the Trudeau government responds to infrastructure bank idea will be moment of truth

Opinion | BY TOBY SANGER | October 31, 2016

Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth makes it look like a match made in heaven. Canada’s public sector has billions in

The advisory council is calling on Ottawa to create a Canadian Infrastructure Development Bank and fund it with $40-billion. They suggest this would attract an additional $160-billion from private institutional investors to finance large public infrastructure projects, including toll highways and bridges, high-speed rail, ports, airports, power transmission, public transit, 'smart-city,' broadband, and natural resource infrastructure. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright