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WHEN THE DUST settled on the spate of provincial
elections held in the past two years, public-private part-
nerships appeared to be among the big winners.
Best cases in point? Premier Doug Ford's Conserva-
tive Party victory in Ontario in 2018 and Jason Kenney's
United Conservative Party's follow-up in Alberta earlier
this year.
"Very oen, a change of government brings a little bit
of uncertainty," says Mark Romoff, the Toronto-based
President and CEO of e Canadian Council for Pub-
lic-Private Partnerships. "But from the outset, Ford and
Kenney announced that infrastructure was among their
highest priorities and that they were both advocates of
the P3 model."
Right-leaning governments also took power in Qué-
bec, where François Legault and his Coalition Avenir
Québec triumphed in 2018; New Brunswick, where
Blaine Higgs' Conservatives formed a minority govern-
FOCUS ON P3S
By Julius Melnitzer
The future
looks bright for
Canadian public-
private partnerships
in the wake of
recent elections
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