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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 recom-
mended 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's project and debt finance practice embraces infrastructure and
PPPs. He represented the lenders on the A30 Highway project, the McGill
University Health Centre and the winning consortium in the MSO Concert Hall
project among others.
Blanchard, Emma Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(613) 369-4755 eblanchard@blg.com
Ms. Blanchard is a partner in BLG's Expropriation Municipal Environmental
and Regulatory Group. She has significant experience as an advocate and
negotiator representing public authorities engaged in the construction and
development of infrastructure with a focus on municipal law, expropriations
and land use planning. Her mandates have included major transit and munici-
pal infrastructure projects.
Bertoldi, Linda L. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6647 lbertoldi@blg.com
Ms. Bertoldi is the national leader of BLG's Electricity Markets Group. Her
extensive power sector experience includes project structure and develop-
ment, project finance, mergers & acquisitions, natural gas, cogeneration,
district energy, distributed generation, wind, solar, hydro, biomass, landfill
gas and other renewable technologies.
Berg, Ira Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4105 iberg@goodmans.ca
Mr. Berg focuses on P3s, alternative finance projects, public procurement
and complex construction projects. He represents public- and private-sector
clients on transportation, bridge and infrastructure projects, and revenue-
generating asset transactions.
Bennett, Chris Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5992 cbennett@osler.com
Mr. Bennett's practice focuses on project finance with an emphasis on infra-
structure and PPPs. He has acted on several major Canadian infrastructure
projects in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, transportation and
national defence.
under residential areas — which is much cheaper and
requires significantly less home expropriation.
Martin says it's tough to overstate the impact the
Canada Line has had. Before it was built, on the streets
leading to the two bridges going to False Creek, an in-
let that separates downtown Vancouver from the rest of
the city, "there was gridlock for several hours a day and
there was no room for any new lanes because we're talk-
ing downtown." e Canada Line, which went under
the inlet instead of going over it, "had the effect of giv-
ing us 10 new lanes. It's location, location, location."
MacDonald says, "I don't think people realized how
good public transit could be until the Canada Line,"
which he worked on for 10 years. He calls it "a show-
case piece of rapid transit" and Marine its poster child.
"I think the idea is, you could live around the station
and not own a car because everything you need is either
where you live or somewhere along the rapid transit line.
So it actually all starts to make sense both economically
and in terms of viability." e regional busses all feed
into at least one line, and the lines all feed into one an-
other, forming a giant web that moves people not only
downtown or to the airport, but throughout Metro
Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
In December, Vancouver opened the Evergreen
Line, an 11-kilometre extension of the Millennium
Line linking East Vancouver to Coquitlam via Bur-
naby and Port Moody — and even more is planned
with new projects coming from TransLink, the agency
responsible for Metro Vancouver's regional transporta-
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