The true cost of public-private partnerships
| March 11, 2009- Artist: Kathy Corrigan
- Title: The true cost of P3s
- Genre: Speech
- Year: 2009
- Length: 13:17 minutes (12.17 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
Provincial and federal governments have been pushing public-private partnerships for more than a decade. Critics says that P3s are a more expensive option and that governments like them because they hide the public debt.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees commissioned a prominent Vancouver accounting firm to do an audit of P3s. We speak about the report with Kathy Corrigan, a researcher at CUPE.
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