Ugh. It’s gonna be another public/private partnership, featuring a consortium of:
Trudeau said the consortium Cadence — made up of CDPQ Infra, AtkinsRéalis, Keolis, SYSTRA, SNCF Voyageurs and Air Canada — was selected to build the line.
The Globe reports that AtkinsRéalis is really SNC Lavelin, which was part of the consortium that screwed up Ottawa’s LRT (although there’s lots of blame to be shared for that one) and renamed itself after numerous corruption investigations.
Canada tends to do badly with public/private partnerships and transit. Given who the players are, and how this is a YOLO from an outgoing PM, I don’t see why this would be different.
Ugh. It’s gonna be another public/private partnership, featuring a consortium of:
The Globe reports that AtkinsRéalis is really SNC Lavelin, which was part of the consortium that screwed up Ottawa’s LRT (although there’s lots of blame to be shared for that one) and renamed itself after numerous corruption investigations.
Canada tends to do badly with public/private partnerships and transit. Given who the players are, and how this is a YOLO from an outgoing PM, I don’t see why this would be different.