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How flipping equity in P3s boosts profits and ends up with the projects being run from Channel Islands tax havens
Just like good stilton cheese, public private partnerships (P3s) were imported to British Columbia from the United Kingdom. And like good stilton, in the UK…
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Tradable Water Rights – Coming to a province near you
In January of this year, the BC government joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to become the fourth province to announce that it is considering creating…
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Lib leadership contender ill informed or misleading on P3s
George Abbott has become the first of the BC Liberal leadership contenders to talk about the use of Public Private Partnerships (P3s) to deliver public…
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Why incentive pay won’t fix education or health care
It turns out — surprise! — that it’s really hard to measure quality in complex social systems and that employing simplistic quantitative measures can backfire.…
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The U.K. having problems with its P3s
Britain, which led the charge for public private partnerships under both Conservative and Labour governments over the past decades, is now seeing problems with the…
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Quebec Auditor General slams P3s in hospital project
Quebec’s Auditor General has issued yet one more report slamming the use of public private partnerships (P3s). With P3s, private corporations finance and operate public…
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Summer reading: two experts on privatization
Policy Note has asked CCPA Research Associates who contribute to the blog to suggest some ideas for summer reading. I am going to cheat a…
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Problems for the South Fraser Perimeter Road P3?
There are some interesting recent developments on the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) public private partnership project. A press release issued Friday afternoon announced the…
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BC opens door to private jails
The BC government has taken the next step down the privatization road by opening the door to private prisons. On April 28th Partnerships BC posted…
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Income Taxes are a steal: Seth’s tax confessions
I just did my taxes this weekend, and I’m wracked with guilt. Personally, I’ve never found completing my taxes particularly onerous. It takes me a…
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Victoria’s billion dollar P3 decision
On March 24th the Victoria area’s Capital Regional District (CRD) is going to make a billion dollar decision. The province has ordered the CRD to…
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BC’s public sector: among the smallest in the country
Have you heard pundits say that BC’s public sector is too big or “bloated”? It’s an argument frequently used as an excuse to advocate for…
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