If we want the types of private sector partnerships we will be hearing about today to work, we need to step up as well.
At some point all the efficiencies, all the cost savings, and all the reforms are simply not enough to make up for a lack of investment.
There has been some discussion in this Committee about whether the private sector can fill in the gaps where Government has fallen short.
Mr. Chairman, if I may, just for a moment, I have an amendment that is pending in the Finance Committee which I have to go attend to.
We need to invest more.
it goes to the question, and there are, I am sure, other parts of the country like this, in which projects of national significance have a r...
If we want to have safe system, we want to have reliable systems, and a country that is competitive, we have to make these investments.
While innovative financing solutions and public-private partnerships can play a role in building the best transit systems possible, they are...
I do not see how that can be a viable replacement for adequate public sector funding.
We have seen the consequences of under-investing in our infrastructure.
I think we always look to experience as an element of quality at the end of the day, and in this case, experience, to me, also equates to sa...