The federal government tabled legislation as part of Budget 2017 to create the Canada Infrastructure Bank. The … legislation sets the bank's purpose as attracting private investment in Canadian infrastructure projects that generate revenue and … are in the public interest.If done right, delivering large infrastructure projects through the proposed bank has the …

This paper documents the potential employment and other value-added benefits of infrastructure investments in Ontario …. In particular, it details the impact of infrastructure investment as a counter-cyclical fiscal policy tool. A review of … the recent literature reveals that infrastructure investment serves both as a tool for job creation and as a stimulus for …

Canadian governments need to spend wisely in order to maximize their infrastructure dollars, according to a new C ….D. Howe Institute report. In “Getting More Buildings for our Bucks: Canadian Infrastructure Policy in 2016,” author Benjamin … Dachis provides Canada's federal, provincial and municipal governments with a blueprint for sound infrastructure investment …

This paper focuses on investment in infrastructure in Canada. The size of infrastructure investments relative to other … paper reviews the approaches taken by other researchers to define infrastructure. It then outlines a taxonomy to define … those assets that should be considered as infrastructure and that can be used to assess the importance of different types of …