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Bowles, Brendan D. Glaholt LLP
(416) 368-8280 bb@glaholt.com
Mr. Bowles is a partner at Glaholt LLP. Certified by the Law Society of Ontario
as a Specialist in Construction Law, he acts for a variety of clients, including
subcontractors and suppliers, general contractors, owners, design profes-
sionals, sureties and insurers. He has experience conducting motions and
trials in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as well as appellate experience.
Bourassa, Philippe Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(514) 982-4061 philippe.bourassa@blakes.com
Mr. Bourassa's practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, with a
particular emphasis on infrastructure and public-private partnership (P3)
projects, mergers & acquisitions, private equity and energy. He advises public
and private corporations, as well as institutional investors on a broad range
of domestic and international commercial transactions in a variety
of industries.
Borsook, Lisa A. WeirFoulds LLP
(416) 947-5003 lborsook@weirfoulds.com
Ms. Borsook acts for corporations, governments and their agencies
regarding their retail, industrial, office and brownfield properties.
Consistently recommended as a leader in infrastructure, property
development and leasing, she has expertise in sophisticated real
estate development work, including mixed-use developments,
sale-leaseback transactions, and public private partnerships.
Borduas, Robert G. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4524 robert.borduas@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Borduas' project and debt finance practice embraces infrastructure and
PPPs. He represented Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in respect
to its over $6bn automated LRT project in Montréal, the acquirer of Montreal
Gateway Terminal Partnership, a container terminal operator in the Port of
Montreal, and the lenders and bond underwriters of the consortium of McGill
University Health Center.
Booth, QC, Robert (Bob) T. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3252 boothb@bennettjones.com
Mr. Booth's commercial practice focuses on infrastructure for the energy and
resources sectors and the security and defence sectors, serving clients in the
oil & gas, transportation, energy utility and defence industries. He advises
on purchases and sales, business creation and joint ventures.
Blundy, Paul D. Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-4854 blundyp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Blundy has specialized in construction and project finance for more
than 30 years and advises on all forms of construction and project financing
transactions, including P3 public infrastructure delivery. He acts for both gov-
ernment and private project participants, including debt and equity investors,
underwriters, contractors, designers and service providers in all sectors.
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(CANCEA) in 2016, entitled Why building
inastructure 'on time' matters and commissioned
by the CCPPP, savings to government in the
200 P3 projects surveyed could be as high as $27
billion, P3s tend to be completed one year more
quickly than traditional projects, they create
115,000 jobs annually, and they add $4 billion to
GDP and $5 billion to wages. "It's these kinds of
numbers that have driven the greater uptake of P3s
by politicians," Romoff says.
ey've also driven uptake in the financial
markets. "P3s are now viewed as a traditional
procurement methodology," says Doug Sanders,
a partner in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's
Vancouver office. "So much so that we're seeing
some traditionally conservative Canadian players,
like insurance companies, come into the market."
It wasn't always that way. Indeed, the first wave
of P3s, spanning the period from 1993 to about
2006, produced mixed results, largely because of
growing pains. But Canadian P3s have blossomed
in the last 10-12 years, so much so that almost 50
jurisdictions have visited Infrastructure Ontario to
learn from the organization's experience.
According to statistics from the CCPPP for the
period from 1993 to 2016, some 80% of projects
have been provincial or territorial with most of
the remaining projects municipally driven. Some
40% have been health care-oriented, 20% fell in
the transportation sector, 10% related to utilities
and an equal proportion to justice projects.
Transportation, however, contributed some 40%
of the dollar value of all projects, with health care
and utilities both at around 20%. Megaprojects
like Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Highway
407 ETR in the Greater Toronto Area, the Ottawa
LRT (known as the Confederation Line), have
much to do with that. e REM suggests that the
trend will continue.
"A significant number of P3s in Canada have
Benefits of P3s
(200 Canadian projects surveyed)
Saved all levels of governments
as much as $27 billion
Completed one year earlier
than traditional projects
Created 115,000 jobs annually
Added $4 billion to GDP
Added $5 billion in wages
- November 2016 study by the Canadian Centre
for Economic Analysis for the CCPPP