The Federal Government's Scheme to Promote P3s In Canada

This past summer, the township of Mapleton, Ontario dealt a direct blow to the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s (CIB) attempt to privatize water in Canada by ending their Request for Proposals (RFP) process and choosing to finance their water and wastewater upgrades internally. For the last year, the CIB had been touting Mapleton as the pilot case of water public-private partnerships (P3s) to be replicated across the country.